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John M. Buck has written: 'Vaccination of calves and yearlings against Bang's disease' -- subject(s): Vaccination, Brucellosis in cattle, Cattle
Cattle
One disease of cattle caused by a prion is BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) aka Mad Cow Disease
Sheep and cattle are slaughtered for their meat and if they have a disease.:)
rinderpest was cattle disease broke out in africa in 1880
Spread disease
Developed vaccine for Anthrax, a disease that threatened the cattle industry.
Mad cow disease
cattle is beneficial to people for many reasons, but mainly for milk and beef.
Very common
Respiratory diseases such as BRD (Bovine Respiratory Disease which covers shipping fever and pneumonia) is the most common disease that cattle die from. Digestive diseases come in second.
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