Mad+Cow+Disease

=**Mad Cow Disease Overview**= Definition:a deadly brain disease that affects cattles and some other animals like sheeps and goats that is iincurable = Mad Cow Disease is a part of Transmissable Spongiform Encephalopathy Medical name: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Symptoms: attack people, stagger as they walk, kick their owners, eat other cows --> agressive

- the milk and muscles(meat) are less likely to be infectecd with the disease - being a brain and nervous system disease, eating meat with/contain nervous system will be more likely to catch the disease - human, especially caucasians (rarely other races) have a certain gene that makes it easier to catch the disease - realized a series of symptoms in england in 1985

Ferreiro, Carmen. __Mad Cow Disease__. Ed. I. Edward Alcamo. New York: Chelsea House, 2004. Sheen, Barbara. __Mad Cow Disease__. New York: Lucent Books, 2004. http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/page268.cfm http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/060313/Chart_MadCowTesting.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11809760/&usg=__UuEpXQk5vjSvqc-9bJIHsU_pD0U=&h=337&w=371&sz=13&hl=en&start=27&um=1&tbnid=5f1OtUxsUge0IM:&tbnh=111&tbnw=122&prev=/images%3Fq%3DMad%2BCow%2BDisease%26start%3D18%26ndsp%3D18%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26newwindow%3D1%26sa%3DN
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