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  2. 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]

  3. Scotland reports case of mad cow disease - AOL

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    LONDON (Reuters) -The Scottish government on Friday confirmed a case of classical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), known as mad cow disease, at a farm in the southwest of the country, the ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Mad cow crisis - Wikipedia

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    Cow infected with BSE. 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.

  6. Decades-old human growth hormone treatments linked to five ...

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    CJD is a cousin of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly called mad cow disease. More than 250 growth hormone patients have been diagnosed with CJD worldwide.

  7. 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]

  8. Feed ban - Wikipedia

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    In 1992, Canada implemented a national bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) surveillance program. [3] In a 2011 publication, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) was at pains to stress that the "level and design of BSE testing in Canada has always been, and continues to be, in full accordance with the guidelines recommended by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)."

  9. Downer (animal) - Wikipedia

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    The downer issue took on another dimension when bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), which often makes infected cattle downers, was found in two North American cows in 2003. Many experts believe that nonambulatory cattle are at higher risk of harboring BSE.