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Mad Cow Disease

Mad Cow Disease. Ayanna Lloyd . Background . The Mad Cow Disease mainly affected the Untied Kingdom .

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Mad Cow Disease

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  1. Mad Cow Disease Ayanna Lloyd

  2. Background • The Mad Cow Disease mainly affected the Untied Kingdom. • BSE possibly originated as a result of feeding cattle meat-and-bone meal that contained BSE-infected products from a spontaneously occurring case of BSE or scrapie-infected sheep products. • There have been 4 cases of BSE identified in the United States.

  3. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy • Known as “Mad Cow Disease” • a transmissible, slowly progressive, degenerative, and fatal disease affecting the central nervous system of adult cattle.

  4. First Discovered • First diagnosed in the United Kingdom in 1986, and was likely caused when cattle were fed rendered protein that contained prions from the carcasses of scrapie-infected sheep or cattle with a previously unidentified transmissible spongiform encephalopathy .

  5. Damage Report • Only about 160 people have died from this disease mostly in the United Kingdom. • People could be infected with the human form of mad cow disease for more than 50 years without developing the illness.

  6. Cleanup Cost • The grand total to test about 10 million cows in the U.S. would be $300 to $500 million a year. Considering that Americans spend more than $50 billion on beef annually, that would add between six cents and 10 cents per pound.

  7. Learned Lessoned • The monitoring system was a result of the 1996 Cattle Passports Order, which requires every head of cattle to have identifying papers from the age of 28 days, and permission from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for any movement or sale. • nearly doubled the number of full time inspectors and developed a new grade of ''meat technician,'' whose job was solely to ensure that slaughterhouses and butchers were conforming with rules intended to limit the disease. • Britain centralized responsibility for meat inspections from 300 local district councils to the newly created Meat Hygiene Service. 

  8. Affects on Humans • The government said it was possible the disease might be passed through blood transfusions, even before the donor shows any signs of infections, raising public fears that a larger human health epidemic could be ahead.

  9. After Effects • The European Union banned Britain from exporting beef. In Britain, some restaurants struck red meat from their menus, many consumers shunned beef, and refused to buy cow-based food even for their pets. • it ordered 4.5 million cattle destroyed, banned meat or bone meal coming from mammals from any animal feed or farm fertilizer, instituted a system to track each individual animal, and began a testing program for cattle most at risk.

  10. Resources • http://kidshealth.org/kid/talk/qa/mad_cow_disease.html • http://eden.lsu.edu/topics/agdisasters/bse/pages/default.aspx • https://www.google.com/search?q=mad+cow+disease&hl=en&gbv=2&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Qhh2U_rRHMuSqAamk4GYCA&ved=0CAUQ_AU • http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/bse/ • http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/26/us/mad-cow-disease-united-states-case-history-britain-has-learned-many-harsh.html

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