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iamthepieman
on May 5, 2021
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Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canad...
I'm missing the reference to foot and mouth disease. FMD is a viral infection and is not caused by prions.
fao_
on May 5, 2021
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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.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_BSE_outbreak
shkkmo
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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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