Forensic Files - Season 3 Episode 4 Foreign Body
Between 1986 and 1989, a disease swept through British cattle herds, which came to be known as Mad Cow disease. Scientists began to suspect that this was somehow related to some human illness. A California neurologist said both humans and animals were suffering from a mutated prion. When defective prions are transmitted from an infected host to a new host, they convert any normal prions they come across into copies of themselves so it is possible for a mutated prion to be transmitted from a cow to a person by eating beef. Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner received a Nobel prize for his work with prion.
- Genre: Crime, Documentary
- Studio: TLC, truTV, Court TV
- Keyword: suspicion of murder, interview, medical examiner, whodunit, true crime, reenactment, coroner, criminal investigation, forensic science, law enforcement, evidence, forensic technology
- Cast: Peter Thomas
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