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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]
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
Controversy has centered on cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE; commonly known as mad cow disease), and the use of ractopamine as an additive in feeds. The conflict has sometimes been called the "beef war" in the media, [ 1 ] similar to the UK–EU Beef war over BSE.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD), formerly known as New variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (nvCJD) and referred to colloquially as "mad cow disease" or "human mad cow disease" to distinguish it from its BSE counterpart, is a fatal type of brain disease within the transmissible spongiform encephalopathy family. [7]