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There was some confusion this week about bovine spongeform encephalopathy (BSE), or, as it’s commonly known, mad cow disease. Humans who are exposed to it by eating infected animal tissues–the only way it can be contracted–develop a disease called Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (VCJD), which is frequently confused with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), a neurological illness that is not associated with VCJD. California …