At 09:30 AM 6/12/01 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:

At 08:01 AM 06/12/2001 -0700, David Honig wrote:

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I know how to read, and I read _Science_. A sidebar called "American's own prion disease" describing Chronic Wasting Disease belonging to the transmissable spongiform encephalopathies (like Creutzfeld-Jakob and BSE). Vol 292 1 June 01 p 1641

Is this from feeding Soylent Green to prisoners, or is this from unsanitary feeding of meat animals at prisons farms?

It may well be from an otherwise useful peptide sequence which has a slight, spontaneous, contagious potential for turning bad. Sometimes, your illness is because your grandfather adsorbed a cosmic ray. Myself, I prefer Slurm (tm)