Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada

Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by iamthepieman on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @10:53AM (#27050604)

I'm missing the reference to foot and mouth disease. FMD is a viral infection and is not caused by prions.

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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by fao_ on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @12:22PM (#27051939)

IIRC at the time the BSE outbreak in the UK[1] was referred to as "foot and mouth disease" and I've heard people refer to it as that since then. I wasn't even aware they were separate things.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_BSE_outbreak

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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by shkkmo on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @01:17PM (#27052726)

There may have been some innacurate reporting, but FMD and BSE present very differently in humans so I doubt there was deep confusion.

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