What country is mad cow disease most commonly in?

Answer 1

During the initial emergence and outbreak, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, the proper name for mad cow disease) was primarily found in cattle in the United Kingdoms. Today it has been almost completely eradicated from the world, although sporadic cases are reported occasionally in different countries.

Answer 2

Mad Cow disease or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy is primarily located in the central nervous system of the cow. Since it is a fatal disease with no treatments or preventatives (except avoiding feeding your cattle feed with trace amounts of protein parts), the prions that are located in the feed in such tiny microscopic amounts affect the CNS by degeneration as these prions or mis-folded proteins accumulate, killing nerve cells all the while. As for location around the world, it can be anywhere ruminant parts are ground up as protein animal by-products mixed on the feed and fed to other ruminants, which is/was North America. However, dispite measures to ban animal by-products in cattle feed, cases continue to pop up, both in Canada, but moreso in the United States.

Answer 3

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, the scientific name for mad cow disease) was first identified in the United Kingdoms (UK). It has since spread to multiple countries throughout Europe.

Answer 4

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, the scientific name for mad cow disease) was first discovered in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s.