Mad Cow Disease

Mad Cow Disease Overview
“Mad cow” is an infectious disease in the brain of cattle. Humans who become infected, usually by eating tissue from diseased cattle, will die of a similar brain disease that may develop over many years.
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Mad cow disease is a deadly brain illness first detected in the United Kingdom in the mid-1980s.
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Mad cow disease: Still a concern
Web Resources
CDC's Health Information for International Travel: BSE and vCJD
U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) ...
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BSE ("mad cow disease") and nvCJD;
Campylobacter infections;
Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis);
cholera;
dengue fever;
diarrhea;
*diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus (DPT);
E. coli (infection with Escherichia coli);
encephalitis; ...
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new-variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD) A derivative of mad cow disease felt to possibly be transmitted through blood.
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Well-known prion diseases are Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and kuru in humans, scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also called "mad cow disease," in cattle, and chronic wasting disease in deer and elk (wapiti).
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injury than is usually seen with CJD, and these cases affected younger people. This type of CJD has been named variant CJD and has been linked to eating beef from cattle infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also called mad cow disease.
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