people get it by eating infected meat from the cows who had it. other people get it from cannibalism, infected surgical instruments, blood donations, organ transplants, and a bunch more stuff that i don't remember.
It is not well known as to how mad cow disease (BSE) spreads. It was thought to be spread from "animal recycling" (feeding animal by-products back to cattle such as bone meal or other ground animal parts in feed). It is NOT spread from cow-to-cow contact. Animal recycling is still allowed to be used in fertilizer and pet feed, but is not allowed to go to animals that will be used for human consumption.
Mad cow disease cannot be treated. The only solution is eradication to prevent the spread of the disease.
what about 'mad cow disease ? This can be passed to man from the food chain..
I believe that is Mad cow disease that you are asking about.
Another word for animal is creature or to be rude a beast.
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.
No, but it's a highly transmissible disease that reduces an animal's ability to be normally productive.
Under most circumstances, cows are not a danger to humans. However, eating contaminated beef can result in the spread of the deadly E. Coli Virus and Mad Cow Disease.
There is no such thing as "cow disease" unless you are referring to MAD cow disease, which is something else entirely.
The main spread of mad cow disease actually came from a sheep. Some bits of sheep meat was used in cow feed until the 2000`s. Sadly, part of the sheep`s brain was in the meat and in their brain tissue was scrapie. A disease were an efected prion(pronounced pree-on) a diseased protein particle eats part of a sheep`s brain, therefore cattle got the disease. When cattle was shipped to other countries just like the black plague, it spread, but luckily it was only a huge risk temporarily.
It's not sad cow disease, it's MAD cow disease. Its a brain disease that can cause irrational behavior in cows.
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.