Hi. I have no complains on my health what so ever, but I would like to find out some informations about mad cow disease symptoms.
These days I have watched on TV many discussions about this disease and that some infected meat shipments were imported into my country.
I have seen what this disease does to cows but no one spoke about its effect on humans.
If someone knows something about this, please share it with me!
Thanks!
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.