Mad Cow Disease

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Mad Cow Disease

• Nathan Blessum
• Advanced Animal Science
• Instructor Randall A. Cale
• 12-18-01

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Mad Cow Disease

• Scientific Name Bovine Spongiform Encepalopathy
• It is found on any type of animal that is cloven
  hoofed such as pigs, sheep, and cattle
• Sheep Scrapie Spongiform Encepalopathy.
• There is a Humans form Creutzfeldt-Jakobs Disease

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Cause

• Feeding cattle animal bi-products such as
  meat-n-bone mill that has an infected prion in
  it.
• Prion-an infected cell with no nucleus that gets
  in an animals brain and destroys it by eating
  away at the brain causing small holes. It doesnt
  have any lifelike functions

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Symptoms

• Loss of balance
• Staggering
• Loss of appetite
• Animals tend to become aggressive
• Foaming at the mouth

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Cures

• Dont feed cattle animal bi-products
• Watch to make sure you are feeding your animals
  safe feeds
• Always vaccinate cattle properly

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Preventions

• USDA requires all imported meat to be inspected
• US will not import cattle from Britian
• Animals suspected of the disease are quarantined

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Effects On the U.S.

• caused great worries for many beef consumers
• caused cattle ranchers to take many precautionary
  steps
• Although this disease has been found in the
  Eastern world, it has not been known to be in the
  US, and chances are it never will because the US
  has so many safety standards.

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Working Bibliography

• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy. 2001. Health
  and Human Services Dept.
• Rampton, Sheldon Mad Cow USA. Monroe Common
  Courage Press, 1997.
• Straiton, Eddie. Cattle Ailments. Ramsbury The
  Crowood Press, 1997.