It is argued that the conditions for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Creutzfeld-Jacob disease epidemics necessitate, in addition to a diet that contains infected meat and bone meal, the presence of leaky membranes that enable bacterial toxins to circulate in the blood and enter the brain.
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