Definitions for mad cow disease
mad cow dis·ease

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1. bovine spongiform encephalitis, BSE, mad cow diseasenoun

   a fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system; causes staggering and agitation

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1. mad cow diseasenoun

   bovine spongiform encephalopathy

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1. mad cow disease

   Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) (commonly known as mad cow disease), is an incurable and invariably fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle. Symptoms include abnormal behavior, trouble walking, and weight loss. Later in the course of the disease the cow becomes unable to function normally. There is conflicting information around the time between infection and onset of symptoms. In 2002, the WHO suggested it to be approximately four to five years. Time from onset of symptoms to death is generally weeks to months. Spread to humans is believed to result in variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD). As of 2018, a total of 231 cases of vCJD had been reported globally.BSE is thought to be due to an infection by a misfolded protein, known as a prion. Cattle are believed to have been infected by being fed meat-and-bone meal (MBM) that contained either the remains of cattle who spontaneously developed the disease or scrapie-infected sheep products. The outbreak increased throughout the United Kingdom due to the practice of feeding meat-and-bone meal to young calves of dairy cows. Cases are suspected based on symptoms and confirmed by examination of the brain. Cases are classified as classic or atypical, with the latter divided into H- and L types. It is a type of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE).Efforts to prevent the disease in the UK include not allowing any animal older than 30 months to enter either the human food or animal feed supply. In continental Europe, cattle over 30 months must be tested if they are intended for human food. In North America, tissue of concern, known as specified risk material, may not be added to animal feed or pet food. About four million cows were killed during the eradication programme in the UK.Four cases were reported globally in 2017, and the condition is considered to be nearly eradicated. In the United Kingdom, from 1986 to 2015, more than 184,000 cattle were diagnosed with the peak of new cases occurring in 1993. A few thousand additional cases have been reported in other regions of the world. It is believed that several million cattle with the condition likely entered the food supply during the outbreak.

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1. mad cow disease

   Mad Cow Disease, also known as Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), is a neurodegenerative disease that affects cattle causing distressing symptoms like aggression, discoordination, and eventually leads to death. It is caused by prions, abnormal proteins that induce normal proteins in the brain to fold abnormally, leading to brain damage. The disease gained public attention as it can be transmitted to humans through the consumption of infected beef, leading to a variant of the fatal Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD).

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   The numerical value of mad cow disease in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

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   The numerical value of mad cow disease in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of mad cow disease in a Sentence

1. Joe Schuele:

   Argentina hasn't accepted any beef exports from the U.S. since 2003 because of a mad cow disease case. That market has been closed to us for almost 12 years, we would be expanding our imports to Argentina when they won't accept anything from us.

2. Carl Paladino:

   Obama catches mad cow disease after being caught having relations with a Hereford. He dies before his trial and is buried in a cow pasture next to Valerie Jarrett, who died weeks prior, after being convicted of sedition and treason, when a jihadi cellmate mistook her for being a nice person and decapitated her.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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