[The prion diseases].

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Prions (proteinaceous infectious particles) are responsible to subacute spongiform encephalopathies (SSE) in man and animals. Recent outbreak of bovine SSE (BSE), or mad cow disease in UK provoked concerns on its possible human hazards. A statement of the British Government in March 1996 upset the world, which was based on 10 cases of "new variant" form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Prion diseases in...

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