Two new retroviruses - the type of virus which causes AIDS - have jumped from primate

[not really ken]

huge difference between a prion and a virus? get outta here! both are agents which cause diseases. The names in biology change with even microscopic differences. there's not much difference between a virus and prions.

 

[Glockmatic]

A variant form of CJD (vCJD) is believed to be caused by eating contaminated beef products from BSE-affected cattle

Those beef products are processed with the spinal fluid and brain matter which has become infected.

 

[not really ken]

yes, the virus do be contained within the nerve system so there would have to some kind of contact of the nervous system with other meat parts

 

[The.Menace]

huge difference between a prion and a virus? get outta here! both are agents which cause diseases. The names in biology change with even microscopic differences. there's not much difference between a virus and prions.

Oh there is a huge difference, I gotta know it man, but u don't want to get me startin......