ANTC68H3 Chapter Notes -Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy, Chronic Wasting Disease, Fatal Familial Insomnia
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Antc68 week 10 - lidenbaum 2001: past epidemics have left beneficial imprint on social institutions. Cholera public health approach stressing quarantine: first response to epidemic (miasma, contagion) is flight, diseases carriers = It is different from virus or viroids. Prions are small protenacious infectious particles that resist inactivation by procedures that modify nucleic acids. Bse bovine spongiform encephalopathy cattle, mink, death of domestic cats and exotic cats in zoos (lions) Cwd chronic wasting disease mule deer, elk. Kuru humans: social circumstances of bse result of unforeseen dangers with industrialized farming because current theory is that bse originated from cows with a genetic mutation, Kuru and human affairs: kuru epidemic follows this plot line (like any other epidemic) for people living in. Began in fore (late 1920s, early 1930s) with emergence of puzzling cases. Thought to be a benign shaking disorder sowary disease , negi nagi silly or foolish behavior. Act 2 agreement by different actors on explanatory.
