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Sacred Disease Of Our Times: Failure Of The Infectious Disease Model Of Spongiform Encephalopathy, Vivian Mcalister May 2005

Sacred Disease Of Our Times: Failure Of The Infectious Disease Model Of Spongiform Encephalopathy, Vivian Mcalister

Vivian C. McAlister

BACKGROUND: Public health and agricultural policy attempts to keep bovine spongiform encephalopathy out of North America using infectious disease containment policies. Inconsistencies of the infectious disease model as it applies to the spongiform encephalopathies may result in failure of these policies.

METHODS: Review of historical, political and scientific literature to determine the appropriate disease model of spongiform encephalopathy.

PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Spongiform encephalopathy has always occurred sporadically in man and other animals. Hippocrates may have described it in goats and cattle. Transmission of spongiform encephalopathy between individuals is too uncommon for it to be usefully considered an infection. Spongiform encephalopathy is …

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2005_Centennial Of Donahue And Alumni.Pdf, Nicole Casper Dec 2004

2005_Centennial Of Donahue And Alumni.Pdf, Nicole Casper

Nicole Casper

In 1905, Frederick Lothrop Ames and his wife moved into their new estate. The estate included a 2 1/2 story, fifty-five room Georgian style mansion house and a separate recreation building with an indoor marble swimming pool and clay tennis court. On the occasion of the building's centennial this publication was written to highlight the buildings and their use first by the Ames family and then as the first two buildings of Stonehill College.

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