What is Mad Cow Disease? A Basic Definition

mad cow disease
     n : a fatal disease of cattle that
         affects the central nervous
         system; causes staggering and agitation [syn: bovine
         spongiform encephalitis, BSE]

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Sat Jul 19

• Op-Ed Contributor - Stop the Madness - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com: Seriously. How the hell is it illegal for companies to test their own stuff?

Mon May 26

• U.S. wants to stop increased testing for mad cow disease: huh? what kind of stupid-ass... oh, "the bush administration ". cheers.

Sun May 11

• What Is Mad Cow Disease | variant Creutzfeldt-Ja kob Disease (vCJD)
• The Truth about Mad Cow Disease

Tue Apr 22

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Wed Apr 16

• Prion disease spreads through sheep milk: Ewes infected with scrapie, the sheep equivalent of mad cow disease, can transmit the disease to lambs through their milk.

Sun Apr 6

• Mad Cow Disease- WebMD: Information on Mad Cow Disease and Creutzfeldt-Ja kob Disease on WebMD

Thu Mar 27

• Nature News: Prions Detectable Through Tuning Fork: Article revealing a technique in detecting Prions that cause BSE.

Tue Mar 25

• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Mad Cow): Wikipedia Web Page with information on BSE (Mad Cow Disease)

Mon Mar 10

• Homepage | CDC BSE: BSE Page on CDC

Tue Mar 4

• Nano-sensor For Better Detection Of Mad Cow Disease Agent: <sep/&a mp;gt;of a nano-sized sensor that detects record low levels of the deadly prion proteins that cause Mad Cow Disease and other so-called prion diseases.

Sat Feb 16

• Slaughterhouse Investigation: Cruel and Unhealthy Practices: Quote from this News Clip: "By allowing downed cattle into the food supply we are increasing the risk of human exposure to mad cow disease."

Wed Feb 6

• BBC NEWS | Europe | French medics sued in CJD scandal

Sun Oct 7

• PMS

Thu Sep 20

• French study shows pot may prevent prion diseases

Mon Sep 17

• Pot-smoking cows could stop BSE, maybe | The Daily Telegraph

Tue Jul 31

• Review of Stupid White Men by Michael Moore

Sun Jul 15

• CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease News From Medical News Today

Sat Jun 9

• My Rants: U.S. fights to keep U.S. meatpackers FROM testing all slaughtered cattle

Sat Jun 2

• Consumers 'support BSE feed ban': Hot damn!!!!! this cheers me up knowing that many in the U.K. and elsewhere in Europe do NOT wish to turn back the clock to those horrible days of feeding farmanimal carcases and guts to other farm animals

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