The titers of several preparations of kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, and scrapie viruses were reduced by only 1/10th or less by high doses of 'y radiation of 50 kGy and by only I/lOth-1/lOOOth or less for 200 kGy. This unusual ra-
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