On Fri, 03 Nov 2000 12:43:00 -0500, Marshall Dudley
<[email protected]> wrote:

>> How sure are the researchers about BSE?  What I mean is that if they
>> find "misfolded proteins," are they sure there isn't a pathogen
>> originally present that produces these proteins?
>>
>> Since many, once "genetic" or "chemical imbalance" caused, diseases
>> are now being found to be associated with pathogens, is it possible
>> there could be a pathogen causing BSE?
>
>They seem pretty sure.  http://www.nmia.com/~mdibble/prion.html is a good
>document on the entire history of finding out the cause.

I understand they're pretty sure.  But note that Dr. Torres is talking
about a vaccine for diabetes -- which isn't  even theoretically
possible using the currently "pretty sure" definition for diabetes.

-- Dean -- from (almost) Duh Moyn  (CDP, KB0ZDF)


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