10/18/2008 PERMALINK
What are the odds your next hamburger will eventually fry your brain? Veterinary scientists are now warning that the miss-folded prion protein that causes Mad Cow disease, which can spread from cows into humans eating meat from infected animals and cause the incurable and deadly Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, appears to be mutating into forms that ARE NOT DETECTED by existing tests. So what are the odds eating that next hamburger will eventually fry your brain? Sad to say, since CJD symptoms don't show up for ten or more years, no one really knows ... more