Ruminants that eat animal by products made from other ruminants, and humans who eat infected beef, veal, mutton, lamb, venison meat that has been contaminated by BSE/TSE/CWD prions contained in the spinal fluid, brain matter, and spinal column.
not very likly because i dont know anybody who has mad cow or had it
We are aware of mad cow disease
There is no such thing as "cow disease" unless you are referring to MAD cow disease, which is something else entirely.
No.
no
Mad cow disease cannot be treated. The only solution is eradication to prevent the spread of the disease.
they go mad
Mad Cow Disease is a layman's term for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.
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.
Yes, that is precisely how you contract mad cow.
She had Bright's disease and Mad Cow disease.
It's not sad cow disease, it's MAD cow disease. Its a brain disease that can cause irrational behavior in cows.
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.