The scrapie prion was discovered in sheep in 1982, and Stanley B. Prusiner got a Nobel Prize for his prion research in 1997. Here's a decent summary of the research history: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1997/presentation-speech.html .
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Date: 2008-06-23 08:20 pm (UTC)