Illustration of the risk of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Magnetic resonance image (MRI) scan of a normal human brain and a beef cow. Mad cow disease or BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) appeared in 1985 in Britain. It is believed to have arisen from scrapie,a similar disease in sheep and goats,and transmitted by feeding cattle with products from infected sheep carcasses. The agent responsible for BSE is a virus-like organism known as a prion. There is concern that infected beef and cattle-related products eaten by people may cause the related Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans | |
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