The alarm sounded by Canada's recently confirmed case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has reaffirmed the exigency of establishing improved safeguards and more aggressive surveillance protocols in North America and around the world. Research converging on the probable causative agent-prion
Mad Cow Disease
β Scribed by Carmen Ferreiro
- Publisher
- Chelsea House Publishers
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 125
- Series
- Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics
- Category
- Library
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