Prions and mad cows

Authors

  • Ramón Muñoz Chapuli Spain

Keywords:

prions, mad cows, United Kingdom

Abstract

When in 1986, the first cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) were identified in a group of English cows, no one could have imagined that it marked the beginning of a true epidemic. To date, this disease has led to the culling of 47,000 cows in the United Kingdom 

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Published

1993-01-20

How to Cite

Muñoz Chapuli , R. (1993). Prions and mad cows. Encuentros En La Biología, (4), 1–2. Retrieved from https://revistas.uma.es/index.php/enbio/article/view/19077