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Vaccine For Mad Cow Disease In Testing; CJD Treatment Possible

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Research at the University of Toronto has led to an experimental vaccine in lab animals that halts further infections by prions, the cause of various neurological diseases including bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) , commonly known as Mad Cow Disease. Prions are not living organisms; they are instead misshapen proteins that can cause a chain-reaction warping of other proteins that lead to brain-destroying fatal accumulations of prions.