Mad Cow Disease?

Question

i need to know where it comes from, what it is, and so on. If you could help me find a site that covers all i need to know that would be great.

Answer 1

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) commonly known as mad cow disease, is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which infects by a mechanism that surprised biologists on its discovery in the late 20th century. While never having killed cattle on a scale comparable to other livestock diseases, such as foot and mouth and rinderpest, BSE has attracted wide attention because it seems possible to transmit the disease to humans; it is thought to be the cause of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), sometimes called new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD), a human brain-wasting disease.

Answer 2

The Centers for Disease Control has several pages on BSE (mad cow disease), CJD (the human variant), and prion diseases in general. See below.

Answer 3

"mad cow disease" is technically known as Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or BSE for short. The best site for it is from the
USDA: http://www.fas.usda.gov/dlp/BSE/bse.html There is also the FDA: http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/bse.html

Answer 4

Its called "Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy". It is caused by "prions", which are microscopic misfolded proteins that are short-circuiting the neurons in the brain. If you look up "B.S.E." you will find plenty on it. Good luck.

Answer 5

That's an old politically incorrect term that is no longer in use much... Now we call it "PMS."