What exactly is having the mad cow disease?

The medical name for mad cow disease is bovine spongiform encephalopathy. It is an incurable fatal brain disease. It is called mad cow disease because it affects a cow's nervous system, causing the animal to act strangely and lose control of its ability to do normal things, such as walk.

Only certain animals can get this disease, people don't actually get mad cow disease. However, experts have found a link between this disease and a rare brain condition that affects people called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Researchers believe that people who eat products from cows that have BSE are at risk of developing a form of CJD.

Mad cow disease is mainly a factor located in Europe, so when you try to donate blood, and they ask you if you have ever been in Germany or any part of Europe, you are disqualified to join because they feel that the disease can live in your body for 10 years or more unnoticed.
It itself is pretty rare 鈥?each year, only one in 1 million people in the United States die of the disease. And because only three cows in the United States have been found to be infected with mad cow disease, which can't be spread from cow to cow, the chance that you will or anyone in your family will eat meat infected with the disease is extremely low.

Symptoms of mad cow disease:
Seek medical care if you are experiencing any of the signs and symptoms such as memory problems or muscle control, especially in younger individuals who may have been exposed to prion infection.


This site doesnt really give you any good symptoms of mad cow disease but it does tell you what happens to animals. Rare people have it, so its hard to track down the symptoms.

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CJD is the human version and it kills

www.mad-cow.org

Haha, i laughed when i saw this question

causes you to salivate and digest your brain slowly making you degenerative.

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