Philip Yam

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Philip Yam looks into Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a variant of Mad Cow disease that has been afflicting humans, and the prospects for stopping its spread, The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases.

Music: The Fugitive Soundtrack composer James Newton Howard
Shawshank Redemption Soundtrack music by Thomas Newman

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