The causative agent of mad-cow disease is a

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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow disease in cattle and its analogous variant Cr–Jacob disease (CJD) in humans is caused by prions. Prions are abnormally folded proteins that cause certain infectious neurological diseases.

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