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An 8 page discussion of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, the disease which made such a dramatic impact in the U.K. in the latter half of the 1990s. This paper details the etiology of the disease as well as threats to the human population. Considerable attention is paid to the measures which have been implemented in the U.S. to prevent impacts similar to those experienced in Europe. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPmadCw2.rtf
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Spongiform Encephalopathy, has caused considerable stir in recent years. The outbreaks of the disease in the United Kingdom had far reaching effects, effects even extending to the U.S.
While in comparison to the impact felt by the U.K. mad cow disease has had only an ancillary impact in the U.S., it has had a tremendous impact on both
our economy and our politics. The intent of this paper is to describe the particulars of the disease and how the world is going about trying to control its
spread. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy was first recognized as a neurological disease which affected cattle in November of 1986 (National Environmental Health Association, 1996).
This is a disease which affects the nervous system and, consequently, infection with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy has potentially devastating consequences. As already mentioned the disease was first identified
as a separate disease entity in November 1986 from which time until May 1995 approximately 150,000 head of cattle from almost 33,500 herds were diagnosed with the disease in the
United Kingdom (National Environmental Health Association, 1996). Almost new 1,000 cases per week were being diagnosed at the height of this epidemic in January 1993 (Center for Disease Control,
1996). By 1996 the outbreak had slowed to only an approximate three hundred cases per week (Center for Disease Control, 1996).
Mad Cow disease is quite perplexing in regard to its causes. Although the late 1990s outbreaks have been linked to the cattles consumption of scrapie-contaminated feed composed of
sheep meat and bones, relatively little is known regarding the transmissible agent itself. Much research has gone into identifying transmissible agent. Most researchers feel that the infectious agent
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