Mad Cow disease

Mad Cow disease is a serious and ongoing threat that suddenly arrived from nowhere to attach huge numbers of British cattle. It seems like a brief cloud that has passed away, but in fact it remains a huge concern because it has raised fears over the safety of food, especially beef. More than ten years after the disease was first identified, remarkably little is known about it. Even basic questions remain unanswered. In addition, much of the research that has been done has been incomplete.

The Mad Cow disease crisis has been causing the British government great economic losses but the action taken so far can barely aid in its recovery. What is now known about the British disease shows why American scientists as well as numerous scientists all over the world should be concerned. By researching the British disease which is considered a Mad Cow disease, It is support the concept that young woman carrying that deadly condition might pass it to their unborn babies before showing symptoms themselves, also will show case research evidence of victims, and the anatomy of the victims brains that was found to be unusual. In addition, we will also take a closer look at the American and British government and focus on their reaction towards

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XI. The danger lies in eating pies, burgers and sausages which might have bits of infectious brain or spinal cord in them”.

The new British crisis began after sixteen people under the age of forty came down with CJD. The study shows the risk that transfusions and blood products may pass on infection. It is also strange that there is still no agreement even about how best to get rid of the thousands of carcasses of cows with Mad Cow disease that have been crammed into freezers across the country. Also, it is reported that all cattle auctions were closed in Britain, as the price of beef was thought to be too low to make a sale justified. " It was found that it is possible for cattle to transmit TSE to mice, and then for one mouse to transmit the disease to another, without any sign of the unhealthy prion-protein building up" (Lasmezas, 1997 p. There is also a report that French are worried about infection via cosmetics containing animal products but it seems far from reality because cosmetics are full of lipid-solvent based chemicals, which would be very destructive to prions. The price of cattle at England’s biggest cattle auction suffered a severe drop. Even if there are nerves in the meat, they do not carry the disease because they are outside the central nervous system.

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