Diseases caused by prions, known as a group as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies or TSEs, are another set of diseases that can lie dormant for decades before striking. There are examples of ...

and other “glandulars” pose a very small but serious risk of infection with the degenerative brain disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease.

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