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  2. Mad cow crisis - Wikipedia

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    The mad cow crisis is a health and socio-economic crisis characterized by the collapse of beef consumption in the 1990s, as consumers became concerned about the transmission of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) to humans through the ingestion of this type of meat.

  3. United Kingdom BSE outbreak - Wikipedia

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    The United Kingdom was afflicted with an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, also known as "mad cow disease"), and its human equivalent variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD), in the 1980s and 1990s. Over four million head of cattle were slaughtered in an effort to contain the outbreak, and 178 people died after contracting ...

  4. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy - Wikipedia

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    Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, is an incurable and invariably fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle. [2] Symptoms include abnormal behavior, trouble walking, and weight loss. [1] Later in the course of the disease, the cow becomes unable to function normally. [1]

  5. Mad cow disease case confirmed on Scottish farm - AOL

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    A case of mad cow disease has been confirmed on a farm in Scotland. ... It follows the crisis of 1986 when 180,000 cattle were infected and 4.4 million slaughtered in order to eradicate it.

  6. Millions of Americans still can't give blood because of the ...

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  7. Mark Purdey - Wikipedia

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    Purdey was born in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, to what The Daily Telegraph describes as a "long line of gifted eccentrics." [1] The Telegraph reports that an ancestor of his reportedly walked from Inverness to London to set up Purdey's gunsmiths, and that, after suffering shell shock during the First World War, his grandfather, Lionel Purdey, lobbied Lord Kitchener to recognise shell shock as ...

  8. Lethal ‘zombie deer disease’ could spill-over to humans ...

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    That's because "mad cow disease" affected a population relatively easy to control: farmed cattle. CWD, on the other hand, can affect both farmed and free-range animals, making total control ...

  9. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy - Wikipedia

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    TSEs in non-human mammals include scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle – popularly known as "mad cow disease" – and chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer and elk. The variant form of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans is caused by exposure to bovine spongiform encephalopathy prions. [4] [5] [6]