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New York, NY, May. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists
said studies in mice indicate a vaccine they developed
may stave off mad cow disease and similar disorders.
Approximately 30 percent of mice that
received the vaccine remained alive for 500 days after
exposure to a mad cow-like disease, researchers from
the New York University School of Medicine reported
in the journal Neuroscience. In contrast, all of the
mice that were not vaccinated were dead by 300 days
after exposure to the disease.
This category of diseases includes mad
cow, scrapie in sheep, chronic wasting disease in deer
and elk and Creutzfeldt Jakob disease in people. All
are incurable and fatal. Scientists think they are caused
by an abnormal protein called a prion.
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