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It can't. Prions are so tiny and "insignificant" to the bodily cells and organisms that it is simply passed off as being a part of the whole thing. Mad Cow Disease is caused not by a foreign bacteria or virus, which is the reason why it cannot fight the disease, only surrender to it and die a slow, horrible, painful death.

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