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How was mad cow discovered?

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16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

BSE was actually discovered in sheep as "Scrapie" in 1732 in Great Britian. However BSE in cattle themselves wasn't discovered until 1984 in Sussex, England when a herd of cattle began to display unusual behaviour.

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