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BSE is a degenerative infection of the central nervous system in cattle. It is a fatal disease, similar to scrapie in sheep and goats, caused by a prion.A major epizootic affected the UK, and to a lesser extent a number of other countries, between 1986 and the 2000s, infecting more than 190,000 animals, not counting those that remained undiagnosed.
He then wakes up in the hospital, to the scene of a nurse turning off his various life support machines and his parents and sister crying in the background and taking his hands, implying that the whole plot was a hallucination induced by the mad cow disease eating away at his brain. In the final chapter, however, Cameron wakes in darkness.
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 ...
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 threat of so-called “mad cow disease” has all but faded from the collective memory, after its appearance in U.K. cattle in 1986. Human deaths from the scourge, caused by eating ...
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 ...
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
Mad cow disease is an example of a prion disease that can spread from cattle to humans, and some researchers have likened "zombie deer disease" to it. For instance, with mad cow disease, it ...