[USNBandit]

My understanding is that in order to get the disease from cows involves eating portions the spine and brain that contain certain prions associated with the disease.

Anybody know if that is correct?

[khelus]

My understanding is that in order to get the disease from cows involves eating portions the spine and brain that contain certain prions associated with the disease.

or meat products contaminated by infected spine and brain.

"Bovine spongiform encephalopathy caused variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, most probably through adulteration of cooked meat products with mechanically recovered meat contaminated by compressed spinal cord and paraspinal ganglia