Didn’t they used to call that mad cow disease? I guess they didn’t want to upset people more than they had to.
They should call it The Hillary Syndrome.
It’s mad cow in cattle, scrapie in sheep.
No, that's Bovine Encephalitis. This is different, 100% fatal. Both are very difficult to track because the pathogens are neither bacterial not viral. If I understand correctly (I did not stay at Holiday Inn Sexpress last night), they're protein-based. The proteins can be replicated and spread, but not through means of seed or spore. You can burn it and it does nothing to stop the spread, in fact it makes it worse by spreading the protein molecules.