BSE

The viruses can work without DNA/RNA,such as prion viruses.it can depend the host DNA to finish its replication etc.The typical example is BSE(Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy)

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... great ideas from you. Please give me a reply!! :D First, It can be used to distinguish prion protein and prion protein scrapie which can cause BSE. Nowadays, many countries think the beef from America can cause BSE. To prevent the disease, we should distinguish the meat. So I think it is useful ...

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... prion proteins responsible for Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs), including Creutzfeldt- Jakob disease in human s, Mad Cow Disease (BSE) in cattle, and scrapie in sheep. Though non-pathogenic, yeast prions behave the same way as mammalian prion protein in their ability to change ...

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... from that end. ************************* Look, it's more of "Mad-Cow Diseases Increasing" hmmm....wonder why? http://www.guardian.co.uk/bse/article/0,,1804539,00.html

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... of long-term exposure of such toxins are poorly understood. Unconventional agents such as the agent causing bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or "mad cow disease"), is associated with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob (vCJD) Disease in humans. Consumption of bovine products containing ...

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