Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy: Scrapie in sheep and Mad Cow disease (or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy)
Sheep and cattle are slaughtered for their meat and if they have a disease.:)
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy: Scrapie in sheep and Mad Cow disease (or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy), cows can get TB and sheep can get foot and mouth
Foot-and-mouth disease. It infects cattle, sheep, and pigs.
Mad cow disease
· foot & mouth (cattle, sheep, etc.) · flu
No. Cattle and sheep are two different species.
animals with cloven hooves (cattle, swine, sheep, goats, and deer)
Cattle ranchers raise cattle, and sheep/goat farmers raise sheep and goats.
Clostridium novyi, also known as black disease, is always fatal in cattle and sheep.
Prion
Answerthey were exposed to the disease Different answer:There is a theory that the Black Death was caused in part by anthrax. In that case, anthrax would almost certainly have been the cause of death for the sheep and cattle.
The main spread of mad cow disease actually came from a sheep. Some bits of sheep meat was used in cow feed until the 2000`s. Sadly, part of the sheep`s brain was in the meat and in their brain tissue was scrapie. A disease were an efected prion(pronounced pree-on) a diseased protein particle eats part of a sheep`s brain, therefore cattle got the disease. When cattle was shipped to other countries just like the black plague, it spread, but luckily it was only a huge risk temporarily.