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Hosts for prions:

Scrapie; sheep, goats mink (mink encephalopathy), mice and marmosets - experimental.

BSE; Cattle, zoo ruminants eg antelope (Kudu). Cats, zoo felines eg puma. Sheep, experimentally, although the search is on for BSE in sheep and other food animals. Mice - experimental, marmosets and macaques - after intracerebral inocul'n. Man, - as new variant CJD, 79 reported human cases in the UK, 3 in France and 1 in Ireland until Aug 2000.

Creutzfeldt Jacob Disease (CJD) - man; mice are the experimental host.  Kuru- man.