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There is quite a bit of data available from Venezuelan HD families, but they haven't identified the factors themselves. From the abstract of the paper, emphasis mine:
Analysis of the 83 kindreds that comprise the Venezuelan HD kindreds
demonstrates that residual variability in age of onset has both
genetic and environmental components. We created a ...
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The main problem is that Mad Cow disease is not caused by a "normal" pathogen but by a prion, a protein.
Traditionally, disease causing agents can be classified into viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites. Bacteria, fungi and parasites are all living organisms, alive in the traditional sense. It is, therefore, possible to design drugs that kill them.
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