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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]
Cameron Smith, a high school student suffering from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, also known as mad cow disease. Gonzo, Cameron's traveling companion, a teenage dwarf with an overprotective mother. Dulcie, an angel who is Cameron's guide. Balder, the Norse god who has been cursed into the shape of a lawn gnome.
Mad zombie disease Zombieland: The disease which caused people, upon receiving a bite from one of the infected, to become zombies. The disease is a mutation of mad cow disease, which became mad human disease, and then mutated to form mad zombie disease. Malignalitaloptereosis The Sword in the Stone
A case of mad cow disease has been confirmed on a farm in Scotland. Atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, has been confirmed in a cow on a farm in ...
The mad cow disease epidemic certainly has its roots in the recycling of animal cadavers by knackers. Bone and meat parts not used in human food and dead animals collected from farms, which constitute the main waste products of the beef industry, are separated from fats by cooking before being ground into powder.
In the UK, 4.4m cattle were slaughtered after mad cow disease spread in the 1980s and 1990s due to bovine being fed infected meat and bonemeal. The disease, which is usually fatal for cattle ...
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 ...
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 ...