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Disease-Causing protein-Removing technique from blood may help cure mad cow disease!

Blood transfusions in the UK have led to the death of three people from vCJD, who later went on to develop the disease, with a global case of 200 patients reported to be suffering from the disease – of which, 164 were in the UK alone!

But, now, fighting the human form of mad cow disease seems to be possible! Scientists have discovered a way to remove disease-causing proteins from infected animal blood! Hopefully, this filtering technique could one day be used to treat human blood.

According to a report in the Lancet, the UK and US researchers have identified a molecule that is capable of removing the prion proteins from blood infected with scrapie.

The fatal neurodegenerative diseases like the mad cow disease – bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the prion diseases, the variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), occur after years of incubation with no apparent symptoms! Hope this new technique, one day can help cure the world of cases like vCJD.

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