seith
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 Posted: 09/18/05 - 08:03 Post subject: |
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You are right. Everybody seam to talk only about cows. Don’t get me wrong but I don’t give a dam about cows, I would like to know how to recognize this disease if the human is infected.
So, I did some research on my own and listen what in find out.
Mad Cow Disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a brain disease of cattle, mostly of the cows, first identified in the United Kingdom (UK) in the mid 1980s.
It is very serious and deadly disease. The human equivalent of Mad Cow Disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, causes memory loss, emotional instability including inappropriate outbursts, progressing to marked weakness, severe rapidly progressive dementia and death almost every time within a year. Sometimes people get some very strange symptoms like personality changes and hallucinations.
There is also one very interesting information- experiments done with caws suggest that almost all of the infectivity is hidden in tissue from the cow’s brain, spinal cord, and intestine, and that muscle meat itself is not infectious.
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