New Test Spots Human Form of Mad Cow Disease with 100 Percent Accuracy
"Blood screening technology may be able to diagnose infections before symptoms emerge".
"Eating beef from an animal infected with mad cow disease can lead to an untreatable condition that attacks the brain and is universally fatal, but symptoms can take decades to emerge. Thankfully, a new blood-screening technology can spot the condition, known as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, with 100 percent accuracy, perhaps years before it attacks.