Just returned and trawled through 170-odd posts, plus emails, and found this trailer in an email from Citywire, dated Christmas Eve:
Market Movers: mad cow fears lift Proteome
London markets remained positive but lifeless ahead of the long Christmas break with Proteome Sciences a feature as investors see it benefiting from the US BSE scare, for which it has a treatment.
I don't have access to this and didn't notice it posted or commented upon in the last few days.
If this is true, it puts a whole new spin on prion-related matters. Or has the Citywire editor picked up CJD?