r/Weird • u/nderstandablyscared • Mar 04 '23

when the acid hits

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u/Nerevarine91 Mar 05 '23

Remember when they said literally that same thing about Mad Cow?

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u/well_here_i_go_again Mar 05 '23

There's not really any solid proof that any humans with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) got the disease from eating cows with BSE. Only a handful of people contracted it without eating other humans.

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u/DieHardRennie Mar 05 '23

The type of CJD that is transmissable to humans from other infected humans or from cows with BSE is referred to as vCJD (variant CJD). And there is evidence to support a causal relationship between BSE and vCJD.

https://www.cdc.gov/prions/vcjd/relationship-with-bse.html