ANSC 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Chronic Wasting Disease, Encephalopathy, Scrapie
7 Jun 2019
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In 2005 there were 200 cases, and only 11 in 2010. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (tses: bse is a member of a family of diseases known as tses, which affect humans and animals. Kuru affects humans (papua new guinea cannibals only: each tse disease share some common characteristics: Long incubation periods ranging from years to decades. Illness of weeks to months with invariable progression to death. Accumulation in the brain and other tissues of fibrillar amyloid protein aggregates (prptse) The absence of an immune response: there are some biological differences in terms of pathogenesis, transmission, and distribution of infectivity in tissues. Bovine spongiform enephalophathy (bse: the origin of bse and natural routes of transmission are still not understood. It is not considered natural for a cow to eat the nervous system of another cow. Immersion in 0. 5% bleach: to inactivate the protein.
