Researchers believe mad cow disease is caused by cattle feed that contained protein from rendered cattle.
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He said regulators in both countries believed that mad cow illness was akin to a viral disease that "comes from the outside" and can be stopped by putting animals into quarantine.
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But most scientists believe that mad cow disease is caused by agents that are far more elusive -- misfolded proteins called prions.
"I couldn't believe how mad I would get while reading it," said Melissa Vasquez, a 30-year-old mother of three in Ingleside, Tex.
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One outraged citizen, Judge John Hays, grabbed a gun and waded ashore through the shallow water, and roared at the bemused warriors, but the Indians chose to spare him, believing him mad.
The tests turned up positive, they say, for abnormal prions, the infectious proteins believed to cause mad cow disease.
Cattle in both countries graze on grass; they are not fed ground-up animal parts that have been used as feed elsewhere, a practice believed to transmit mad cow disease.
