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Mad Cow Disease

Answer these questions based on the 1980s Mad Cow Scandal
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Scientific name of MCD
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
Country where MCD was first spotted
United Kingdom
First human death from MCD
Stephen Churchill
Scientific name of the disease he had (human MCD)
(new) Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Disease spotted in Papua New Guinea in the 1950s that helped identify MCD
Kuru
Tribe affected by this disease
Fore
Type of pathogen that causes MCD
Prion
Person who discovered this pathogen, and won the Nobel Prize for it
Stanley B. Prusiner
Name one of the symptoms of human MCD
Hallucinations, ataxia, myoclonus, seizures, blindness, dementia, dysphagia, dysarthria
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