Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, the scientific name for mad cow disease) was first identified as a separate and distinct disease of cattle in the early 1980s. Unfortunately, BSE was not identified as being zoonotic until the early 1990s when a sudden increased in variant Creutzfeld-Jacobs Disease (vCJD) was observed by human physicians.
Humans get what is called Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, not Mad Cow disease. CJD was first found in the 1920s in Germany by Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt and Alphons Maria Jakob.
Mad Cow is not a virus or bacterial infection like a cold or flu is that comes about as a seasonal thing. It is caused by a prion, and the chances that humans will contract Mad Cow is extremely low; there is no season that people can "start getting" Mad Cow disease.
We are aware of mad cow disease
There is no such thing as "cow disease" unless you are referring to MAD cow disease, which is something else entirely.
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Mad cow disease cannot be treated. The only solution is eradication to prevent the spread of the disease.
they go mad
Mad Cow Disease is a layman's term for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.
She had Bright's disease and Mad Cow disease.
Yes, that is precisely how you contract mad cow.
It's not sad cow disease, it's MAD cow disease. Its a brain disease that can cause irrational behavior in cows.
People do not get Mad Cow Disease. No human can get mad cow disease but humans can be infected by eating meat from a contaminated cow that has mad cow disease. The disease in people that has been associated with humans is called variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (vCJD) that is also a progressive fatal neurological disease.