| Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, eats holes in the brains of cattle. |
| The prions that cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease aren't broken down by normal cooking temperatures. |
| Patients with encephalopathy require a low-protein diet and enough lactulose to produce three or four bowel movements daily. |
| Thiamine supplementation is essential in malnourished patients for the prevention of Wernicke's encephalopathy. |
| Scientists originally believed the goat had scrapie, a disease similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy. |
| Improvement was defined as partial or complete resolution of clinical or subclinical symptoms of hepatic encephalopathy. |
