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Cattle infected with mad cow disease are killed. (Date of shooting unknown)
The carcass of a BSE-infected cow is moved for incineration. BSE (bovine spongiform encephalop- athy), or 'mad cow' disease, progressively destroys the brains of infected cattle. The disease first appeared around 1985 in Britain, & in 1991 also occurred in France. It is thought to have arisen from a similar disease, scrapie, which infects sheep & goats and to have been transmitted to cattle via processed feed containing infected sheep carcasses. The infective agent responsible for BSE is a virus-like organism known as a prion. Similar diseases affecting humans include Kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease & Gerstmann-Straussler syndrome.
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18-11-2010
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