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Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy affects cattle, sheep, goats, deer and elk, as well as humans. No other animal has been known to get infected with TSE, including predators like wolves, dogs, cougars, bears, lions, cats, pigs etc.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 11y ago"Mad Cow Disease" is the term specifically referring to the brain degenerative disease of cattle. Humans get a form of "mad cow" called Crueztfeldt-Jakob Disease.
Sheep and goats get Scrapie, and deer and elk get Chronic Wasting Disease.
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∙ 13y agoNo. You can get MCD from eating contaminated beef, but you can't get it directly from a living, breathing cow.
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∙ 13y agoBison, buffalo, sheep, goats, elk, deer
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∙ 14y agoYes, it's transmissible to humans.
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How can you make farmers aware about mad cow disease?
We are aware of mad cow disease
Can humans get mad cow disease?
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.
Which season do people usually start getting mad cow disease?
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.
Evidence that prions were responsible for mad cow disease?
At one time, cattle were fed the unwanted parts of ground up sheep. Some of those cows became infected with mad cow disease. Mad cow disease spread to humans. Cattle were also fed parts of ground up cow parts, cows eating ground up cattle were infected with that disease. The breakthrough came in New Guinea. There, women and children would eat the brains of dead people. Men would not. Women and children would catch a disease similar to mad cow disease. Men would not. That made it obvious that the disease came from something common to women and children and not to men. Since they behaved the same as nearby groups except for eating the brains of dead people, that had to be the difference. The only difference in the brains of the dead people with mad cow disease and those without mad cow disease was the prions. This was then tested in England where mad cow disease was common. The only difference between cows with mad cow disease and those without mad cow disease were the same prions. The people with mad cow disease had the same prions in their brains.
What is cow disease?
There is no such thing as "cow disease" unless you are referring to MAD cow disease, which is something else entirely.
Who is affected most by Mad Cow disease?
The people who raise cattle, of course.
Is mad cow disease treatable?
No.
Can a Bull get Mad Cow Disease?
no
How cow mad diseases is treated?
Mad cow disease cannot be treated. The only solution is eradication to prevent the spread of the disease.
What happens to cows that have mad cow disease?
they go mad
What is mad cow in latin?
Mad Cow Disease is a layman's term for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.
What disease did Emily Dickinson have?
She had Bright's disease and Mad Cow disease.
