U.S. Research Into Prion Diseases Is Limited.

Focuses on research into prion disease in the United States. Research conducted by Paul Brown, formerly of the National Institutes of Health, during the 1970s into prion diseases in animals; Statistics related to the amount of money spent on research into prion diseases, including mad cow, scapie in sheep, and the human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; Amount of money spent on beef annually by consumers in the U.S.; Excerpts of a report issued by the Institute of Medicine, critical of the paucity of funding and research into prion diseases; Amount of money transferred by the U.S. government to the Agriculture Department so it can perform more tests; History of prion research.