  upon request, the story of mad cow's disease: In 1907, Dr. Alzheimer published a treatise about a disease that would one day carry his name. He had two young colleagues who worked with him, Dr. Creutzfeldt and Dr. Jakob, and they too identified a similar brain-wasting disease that now has Europe in a panic. The brains of cows turn into a sponge-like mass and their behavior is called urlLink "mad. " The human variant of Mad Cow Disease has been named Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease, or CJD. The protein causing CJD has no DNA, and has been described as more like a crystal than cellular material.
In labs, 1000 degree Fahrenheit heat does not destroy this protein particle. Some scientists say that once infected, the incubation period can last anywhere from one month to thirty years. As the human brain turns into a sponge, this spongioform encephalitic condition physically debilitates those so infected. so the symptoms are as follows: cognitive impairment ataxia (Loss of the ability to coordinate muscular movement. ) visual distortions or impaired visual acuity delirium myoclonus (A sudden twitching of muscles or parts of muscles, without any rhythm or pattern, occurring in various brain disorders.
) dysarthria (Difficulty in articulating words, caused by impairment of the muscles used in speech. ) profound dimentia that leads to death - being slightly delirious, spastic, demented as well as inarticulate, i fall into all the categories, but it is not nice to make fun of something serious, so i won't. i don't have mad cow's disease. but i also come from the big HK, where there was the chicken flu epidemic ;p urlLink psychotic disillusions 
