No. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, the scientific name for mad cow disease) is caused by a misfolded protein called a prion. The protein has been found in the distal small intestine, tonsils and central nervous system tissues of cattle infected with the prion. The prion has never been found in the blood or milk of cattle.
they go mad
Researchers are not completely sure how cows get mad cow disease, but they believe it comes from certain food that was given to cows. Some of this food contains the remains of dead cows that had the infection causing the cows that are eating it to get the infection. Mad cow disease affects the cows brain causing them to go "mad."
Cows.
It's not sad cow disease, it's MAD cow disease. Its a brain disease that can cause irrational behavior in cows.
Cows get mad cow disease, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, from consuming feed contaminated with the prion that causes the disease. This prion can come from infected animal byproducts in the feed.
yeh when you had a poo ate it then pooed it back out in a cows mouth which made the cow mad so its madcow disease lols :)
At this point, only one cow is known to be affected by Mad Cow Disease in the latest case (which was in April of 2012). The other cows from the same herd as the one known to be affected will be tested for the disease as well.
Nobody really knows.
Contaminated feed.
it is newsworthy because it tells you about what would happen if you eat cows
mad cow disease is when cows get it. when the disease is passed on 2 humans, it's called the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. so technically its the same thing, just in different species
Only the nerve cells, yes.