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E: BSE, Mad Cow, Mad Cow Disease, MadCow, MadCow Disease, Mad-Cow, Mad-Cow Disease, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, CJD, New variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, nvCJD, BSE cattle, BSE beef, BSE cow, Prion, Prion Disease, bse, mad cow disease, beef, bovine, spongiform, encephalopathy, cjd, new variant, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, meat, food, diet, nutrition, nutritional diseases
F: An information resource produced by Veterinarians, Veterinary Neurologists and Neuropathologists on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) reviewed by a scientific panel of experts in the fields of veterinary medicine, prion/protein studies, neuropathology, and disease surveillance. BSE - INFO is the authoritative, unbiased source for information regarding BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) and the other TSEs (transmissible spongiform encephalopathies).
G: BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy), a.k.a. mad cow disease is a serious and always fatal disease which affects all mammals and higher vertebrates and is the cause of new variant cjd, new variant, creuzfelt jakob
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I: BSE dot INFO | BSE, Mad Cow, Mad Cow Disease, MadCow, MadCow Disease, Mad-Cow, Mad-Cow Disease, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, CJD, New variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, nvCJD, BSE cattle, BSE beef, BSE cow, Prion, Prion Disease, bse, mad cow disease, beef, bovine, spongiform, encephalopathy, cjd, new variant, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, meat, food, diet, nutrition, nutritional diseases | An information resource produced by Veterinarians, Veterinary Neurologists and Neuropathologists on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) reviewed by a scientific panel of experts in the fields of veterinary medicine, prion/protein studies, neuropathology, and disease surveillance. BSE - INFO is the authoritative, unbiased source for information regarding BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) and the other TSEs (transmissible spongiform encephalopathies).| BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy), a.k.a. mad cow disease is a serious and always fatal disease which affects all mammals and higher vertebrates and is the cause of new variant cjd, new variant, creuzfelt jakob |BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy), a.k.a. mad cow disease, is the bovine (cow) form of an acquired neurodegenerative disease called TSE (Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy.) TSEs have a grave and always fatal clinical progression known to affect all higher vertebrates, especially mammals including of course, humans. During the late 1980s, BSE was first described as neuropathological entity, occurring in milk cows and beef cattle in the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, BSE has circled the entire globe and has been reported on every continent except Australia. Since the disease was firstdiagnosed in 1986, over 2 million cattle are estimated to have been infected with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). Out of short sided economic and political motives tremendous under reporting of the occurrence of TSEs has occurred in the vast majority of countries world wide. It is common knowledge among neurologists and neuropathologists that the excessively powerful agriculture lobby has consistently suppressed and misconstrued the scientific facts concerning BSE resulting in an even more serious epidemic. BSE is believed to have originated by feeding animal meal made from scrapie afflicted sheep to large numbers of cows. Affected animals show extreme neurological deficits which progressively lead to death. Due to consistent the wide spread propagation of the TSE inciting prions the consumption of meat, in particular beef, contains an inherent risk of acquiring the human TSE, new variant, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). The source of the human form of BSE (vCJD) is from consumption of beef products contaminated with the BSE agent. Whether measures implemented in 1988 and 1990 to completely remove infectious material from the human food chain have succeeded thus far remains unlikely. As of September 2004, globally, there have been 157 cases of vCJD (5 still living). It is not possible to predict the eventual size of the vCJD epidemic because there are too many uncertainties, including the likely incubation period. The minimum incubation period of vCJD (the period between infection and clinical illness) is probably at least 10 years and may be very much longer. It is not certain when BSE infected material may have first entered the human food chain, although it is likely that this was in the early 1980. It is reasonable to assume, given the comparison with Kuru (an extremely rare Human Spongiform Encephalopathy) where cases have emerged over 40 years after the practice of cannibalism ended, that the incidence of vCJD will continue for many years to come, regardless of the effectiv eness of measures to remove infective material from the human food chain. The transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, of which vCJD is one, are all caused by unusual infectious agents called Prions. Quite unlike other known infectious agents (bacteria and viruses for example) Prions do not to contain DNA, the genetic material which is necessary for replication and infection. Consisting solely of protein, therefore, it is widely believed that Prions are a rogue form (PrPsc) of a normal protein (PrPc) found in our brains. Using advanced scientific techniques; it has been shown that the biochemical differences between various forms of Prion disease in both humans and animals are consistent and distinct. This research has also confirmed that vCJD is unlike other strains of Prion disease in the human population, such as sporadic or familial CJD. Sadly, scientific evidence now amounting to proof has confirmed that vCJD is caused by the BSE agent, most probably through exposure to BSE-infected beef products.D: Array E: F: bar1