mad cow disease

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Definition von mad cow disease im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch

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Definition von mad cow disease im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

bovine spongiform encephalopathy

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

(Bovine spongiform encephalopathy) fatal disease affecting the nervous system in cattle

Mad cow disease is a disease which affects the nervous system of cattle and causes death. = BSE. BSE. or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) Fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle. Symptoms include behavioral changes (e.g., agitation), gradual loss of coordination and locomotive function, and, in advanced stages, weight loss, fine muscular contractions, and abnormal gait. Brain tissue becomes pitted with holes and spongy. Death usually follows within a year. The disease is similar to the neurodegenerative disease of sheep called scrapie. No treatment is known. A BSE epidemic in Britain that began in the mid-1980s is believed to have been caused by the use of cattle feed containing supplements made from ruminant carcasses and trimmings. Hundreds of thousands of infected cattle were slaughtered and the use of animal-derived protein supplements ended. The cause of both BSE and scrapie is attributed to an infectious aberrant protein called a prion. The unusual occurrence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, another prion-related illness, in young people beginning in the mid-1990s may be linked to eating meat from cattle with BSE

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad-cow disease, is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which infects by a mechanism that surprised biologists upon its discovery in the late 20th century

Silbentrennung

mad cow dis·ease

Türkische aussprache

mäd kau dîziz

Aussprache

/ˈmad ˈkou dəˈzēz/ /ˈmæd ˈkaʊ dɪˈziːz/