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You may think this is quite a funny name for a disease! However, mad cow disease refers to an illness known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE for short. This infection affects a cow's nervous system causing them to lose their abili...
Although it is said that you cannot get mad cow disease from a mad cow this is somewhat true. However there has been link between the rare brain condition that does have an affect with people to be one in the same with a mad cow. Look here ...
Neither. Its a prion. It was caused by giving cattle ground up meat meal which is not natural and there was some mutation so then humans contracted it as well when they ate beef.
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CJD is non curable, it affects the nervous system and the immune system.
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BSE is a relatively new disease, first diagnosed in Great Britain in 1986. The common name of "Mad Cow" is probably due to the loss of motor control, dementia and behavioral changes seen in the late stages of this disease.
http://vetmedicine.about.com/cs/zoonotic/a/madcow.htm
BMC Veterinary Research, scientists have detected changes in the production and accumulation of the prion protein in the brains of cattle with a rare neurodegenerative disorder. Martin Jeffrey of the ...
http://esciencenews.com/dictionary/prions
Recently, I started wondering if my cat could have Mad Cow Disease. Mostly in jest, because she is healthy, just a little crazy. But, a lot of us cat owners know that our cat is 'special'. Our cat is two years old and is a big, crazy, grey ...
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/445540/could_m...
I have to wonder how many of you people have actually set foot on an American cattle ranch in your lifetime?? The fact that the cow that showed up with the Mad Cow in Washington was a dairy cow is pretty much a guarentee that she was a "...
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=106721...
ImmunPlex undenatured whey protein isolate does not contain any genetically modified ingredients or DNA and RNA derived from genetically modified organisms. The raw material is sourced from American cows that are certified BSE (Mad Cow)free...
http://www.prohealth.com/immunplex.htm
Despite the lessons learned since the outbreak of Mad Cow disease in the United Kingdom, the American meat industry has not taken precautions to insure the safety of the beef supply against the disease. Not even feeding of brain and spinal ...
http://www.faqs.org/abstracts/News-opinion-and-commenta...