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What bacteria and viruses are in mad cow disease?
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Neither: Mad cow disease is more correctly known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (bse). It is believed that the infectious agent in bse is a prion. Prions are proteins, neither viruses nor bacteria.
Answered 8/31/2013
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