Cattle Health

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, the scientific name for mad cow disease) is caused by a misfolded protein called a prion. The outbreak of BSE in the late 1980s and early 1990s was caused by the feeding of rendered cattle carcasses back to cattle as a feed supplement. It was thought at the time that the rendering process (which cooks tissues to a high temperature) would destroy any pathogens; unfortunately heat does not degrade the infectious prion. When cattle with the prion died and were sent to rendering, the animal feed made from their carcass also had the prion and the disease spread rapidly through the cattle herd in England.

Since at least 1995, this practice has been strictly banned in the United States; Canada instituted the ban around this time as well but found some producers had stockpiled reserves to dodge the ban. Canada's rendered feed ban was considered effective starting in 1999. Europe, including England, also instituted this feed ban in the 1990s, and the cases of infectious BSE have dropped dramatically since. In 2011 there were only 29 cases of BSE in the entire world, and most of these were atypical (non-infectious) BSE.

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.

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A prion, or misfolded protein caused by genetic mutation.

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Whether you are exercising or not, bleeding during urination is never normal and cannot be diagnosed online. Please contact a medical professional for an appointment.

I believe you mean transformed, as a heifer is a cow, and she instead of he. In that case it would be Io, one of Zeus's lovers.

In general, an animal won't eat if it either isn't hungry or for whatever reason is too sick or injured to eat. This is typically a medical problem that will need a veterinarian to help resolve.

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Many types. Some are similar to those of most developed nations, others are simple hut like structures. It varies from country to country.

Prions, and the symptoms that occur when a sheep and cow get this disease: it affects their normal brain function, and they behave abnormally until they suddenly up and die.

Better get the veterinarian to check on this. [S]He'll have a better reason for why than what most will know on here.

Two times a day is the western accepted minimum.

Not milking on time, the udder being so full that milk is leaking out of the teats.

No. In most cases, ringworm would be spread by direct contact with each other.

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Yes.

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, the scientific name for mad cow disease) is caused by a prion, a normal protein that is mis-folded and cannot be broken down by the body.

There are no known cures for MCD in its human form, which is otherwise known as variant Cruetzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD). Nor are there any cures for MCD in the bovine version, which is otherwise known as Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). As a matter of fact, no form of this disease in any animal that is likely to be affected (sheep, bison, buffalo, elk, deer, etc.) has any sort of cure whatsoever. This disease in sheep and goats is called Scrapie. In cervids, it is called Chronic Wasting Disease. BSE, Scrapie, and CWD are all collectively known as Transmissble Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE). Thus, TSE is not curable.

"There is currently no proven treatment for the underlying process" which causes variant CJD according to the Edinburgh CJD unit in Scotland, in the United Kingdom (July 2006). This is also true for the bovine variant, sheep variant or cervid variant of this disease. The only possible treatment available (if you can call it that) is humane euthanasia of the affected animal.

Mad cow disease is the name of a syndrome given to an unusual spike in the number of cattle showing neurologic signs in the United Kingdoms in the 1980s. The disease was given the formal name of bovine spongiform encephalopathy based on the microscopic signs of the disease in the brain and is often called BSE for short. BSE is caused by a prion, a mis-folded protein in the brains of cattle, so it is not caused by a protist.

It's likely that it is very minimal that you will get tuberculosis, as it is not a water-borne disease.

Both diseases are caused by a prion (infectious misfolded protein) that affect the Central Nervous System (the brain and spinal cord). The incubation period of this prion is drawn out over a period of 10 years, and the end result of this disease leads to dysfunction of the CNS causing irregular mobility, attitude changes and eventually death. BSE (the proper term for "Mad Cow Disease") and CWD are neither incurable nor treatable.

Yes, because they have the same organs.