U.S. scientists said studies in mice indicate a vaccine they developed may stave off mad cow disease and similar disorders.

Approximately 30 percent of mice that received the vaccine remained alive for 500 days after exposure to a mad cow-like disease, researchers from the New York University School of Medicine reported in the journal Neuroscience. In contrast, all of the mice that were not vaccinated were dead by 300 days after exposure to the disease.

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Source: United Press International
May 13, 2005

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