Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (redirect from Mad cow disease)
encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, is an incurable and invariably fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle. Symptoms include abnormal...
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disease (vCJD), formerly known as New variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (nvCJD) and referred to colloquially as "mad cow disease" or "human mad cow disease"...
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The mad cow crisis is a health and socio-economic crisis characterized by the collapse of beef consumption in the 1990s, as consumers became concerned...
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Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (redirect from Prion disease)
popularly known as "mad cow disease" – and chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer and elk. The variant form of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans is caused...
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United Kingdom BSE outbreak (category 1980s disease outbreaks)
encephalopathy (BSE, also known as "mad cow disease"), and its human equivalent variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD), in the 1980s and 1990s. Over...
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Downer (animal) (redirect from Downed cow)
then be incinerated, buried, rendered, or slaughtered. Because of mad cow disease, the slaughter of downer cattle is a topic of great concern. There...
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Look up mad cow in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mad cow disease is a neurodegenerative disease of cattle. Mad cow may also refer to: Branded (2012...
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of prion disease cases. Sporadic CJD is different from bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) and variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD)....
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encephalopathy (commonly known as mad cow disease) on a website he published in 1994. In the same year, he was hired to work on mad cow issues for Farm Sanctuary...
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proteins called prions and include similar diseases such as BSE (mad cow disease) in cattle, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, and scrapie in sheep...
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beef. The latter episode, entitled "Is American Beef Really Safe from Mad Cow Disease?", contributed to three months of protest in Seoul against importing...
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Proteinopathy (redirect from Protein misfolding disease)
include such diseases as Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (and a variant associated with mad cow disease) and other prion diseases, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's...
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with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, colloquially known as mad cow disease). The action of a non-penetrating stunner is similar, but the bolt...
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Prion (category Infectious diseases)
chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle (mad cow disease), and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) in humans...
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Ongole cattle (section Ongole cow)
demand as it is said to possess resistance to both foot and mouth disease and mad cow disease. These cattle are commonly used in bull fights in Mexico and...
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Foodborne illness (redirect from Foodborne disease)
bacteria, viruses, or parasites, as well as prions (the agents of mad cow disease), and toxins such as aflatoxins in peanuts, poisonous mushrooms, and...
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2008 US beef protest in South Korea (redirect from Mad cow protests)
beef imports. The ban had been in place since December 2003, when mad cow disease was detected in US beef cattle. The protests occurred on a background...
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United States beef imports in South Korea (redirect from People's Action for Countermeasures against Mad Cow Disease)
2003 when a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease was discovered in a cow in Washington. By 2006, the United States Department of...
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Pithing (section Disease control)
encephalopathy (BSE, also known as mad cow disease).[citation needed] It is, however, encouraged for animals in emergency or specific disease control situations where...
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with the supervision of the labeling of beef after an outbreak of mad cow disease. The name of the law is a famous example of the virtually unlimited...
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concerns that they could transmit bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad-cow disease), although the herds from which gut is harvested are certified BSE-free...
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Highland cattle (redirect from Highland Cow)
the UK and Canada. However that has stopped, largely due to the BSE (mad cow disease) outbreaks in the United Kingdom. Today, Highland cattle are mainly...
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Cattle mutilation (redirect from Cow mutilation)
track the spread of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad cow disease") and related diseases, such as scrapie. Kelleher argues there was an "uncanny...
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Major prion protein (section Alzheimer's disease)
disorders and neurodegenerative diseases such as in animals: ovine scrapie, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, mad cow disease), feline spongiform encephalopathy...
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Outbreaks of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, commonly known as mad-cow disease) led to legislation to reduce risks of contracting the human variant...
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disease (vCJD) is the infectious form that comes from the meat of a cow that was infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also called mad cow disease...
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a 100% mortality rate. Includes bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease), scrapie, and kuru among others. Neonatal encephalopathy (hypoxic-ischemic...
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until years later. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease is another prion disease which is usually caused by feeding contaminated bovine...
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