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Human Health and Disease
Prion Diseases
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- Prions cause CJD and BSE
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2000 AIPMT 1 question
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Which disease of man is similar to cattle's bovine spongiform encephalopathy :Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) is caused by prions, abnormally folded infectious proteins, which make the brain tissue spongy.
The similar prion disease in humans is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD); a variant form (vCJD) was linked to eating BSE-infected beef.
So the human disease similar to BSE is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.