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Yes, in a manner of speaking. Mad Cow Disease is a nickname for a more harder-to-pronounce name of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). Most believe that Mad Cow Disease also applies to humans, but this is a bit of a problem: humans are not cows. Yes they are capable of getting the variant form of this neurologically degrading disease, but that doesn't automatically entitle them to suddenly turn into a cow that is mad.
Seriously, humans don't exactly get "Mad Cow Disease." What they do get is Cruetzfeldt-Jakob Disease. The chances of getting this disease is 1 in 10 billion, and only from contaminated beef or infected brain matter and spinal column, bone marrow, and the eyes.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 12y agoCows contract BSE from eating contaminated feed laced with the prions from cows that have died of BSE or had BSE and entered the animal food chain. These dead cows or sheep or goats get ground up and mixed with feed to be fed to other ruminants. Chicken feces that are fed to cows (yes, cows do eat chicken feces) can also have the prions because the chickens were fed animal by-products. Cows can also get BSE from the milk of their dams when they're calves, or even from the blood that the cow shares with her calf in the womb. BSE is also thought to spread through genetics.
Since the feed ban in 1995 in Canada (and around the same time in the States), it was suspected that cases around 2005 would pop up. Since then, if the feed ban is still in effect and no one is feeding animal by-products to ruminants (which may not be likely, as there still maybe some idiots who still feed their cattle animal byproducts), no more BSE cases should pop up in the USA and Canada.
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∙ 11y agoNo, but they can get boners.
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∙ 13y agoYes.
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What happens to cows that have mad cow disease?
they go mad
Where did mad cow disease come from?
Researchers are not completely sure how cows get mad cow disease, but they believe it comes from certain food that was given to cows. Some of this food contains the remains of dead cows that had the infection causing the cows that are eating it to get the infection. Mad cow disease affects the cows brain causing them to go "mad."
How many cows were affected by the latest case of Mad Cow Disease?
At this point, only one cow is known to be affected by Mad Cow Disease in the latest case (which was in April of 2012). The other cows from the same herd as the one known to be affected will be tested for the disease as well.
What type of beast has Mad Cow Disease?
Cows.
How do cows get mad cow disease?
Mad cow disease happens when the proteins in the brain of cow become misfolded. This is called prion. In simple words all proteins have to be folded before they can function and when some proteins in the brain become misfolded, such a state is called prions (misfolding of proteins) and it results in mad cow disease.
What is sad cow disease?
It's not sad cow disease, it's MAD cow disease. Its a brain disease that can cause irrational behavior in cows.
Does mad cow disease affect a cows cells?
Only the nerve cells, yes.
What was a cause mad cow disease?
yeh when you had a poo ate it then pooed it back out in a cows mouth which made the cow mad so its madcow disease lols :)
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.
How many cows are affected with mad cow disease?
Nobody really knows.
What was the food called that mad cow disease cows ate?
Contaminated feed.
Why is mad cow disease newsworhty?
it is newsworthy because it tells you about what would happen if you eat cows
