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Hot Topic: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease), Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), and other Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE)

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The "Hot Topic" bibliographies consist of basic explanations and lists of publications (journal and magazine articles, books, etc.) that are carefully chosen, evaluated, and updated to reflect scientific research and opinion on a wide variety of aspects of a particular topic. The links below lead to the complete bibliographic information for each publication with additional description of its contents as needed and, potentially, a link to the complete text of the publication itself. All of the items below are also available through the Archive and can be identified through the Strategian Science Database.

How is/What is ...:

What is Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease? (from the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy; look within the entry for Central Nervous System Viral Diseases)

What is Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy? (from the Merck Veterinary Manual)

Reviews/Overviews:

US Election Special: Head to Head -- Bush vs Kerry (September 16, 2004)

Progress and Problems in the Biology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics of Prion Diseases (July 15, 2004)

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Pathology, Epidemiology, and Public Health Implications (September 2003)

Diagnosis and Prevention of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (February 2003)

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and its Epidemiology (2003)

Diagnosis of Prion Diseases (2003)

Research/Analysis:

Risk of Transmission of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy to Humans in the United States: Report of the Council on Scientific Affairs (June 23/30, 1999)

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