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bovine spongiform encephalitis: a fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system; causes staggering and agitation
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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which infects by a mechanism that shocked biologists on its discovery in late 20th century and appears transmissible to humans. ...
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BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy). Bovine means "cow", spongiform means "sponge-like", and encephalopahy means "brain disease". A disease that can be fatal in people who eat infected beef. Even temperatures, hot enough to melt lead, do not destroy the proteins (called prions) that cause Mad Cow disease, thus making cooked contaminated beef still unsafe to eat
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[See "Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)" and "Prions and Disease"]
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scientifically known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), this disease in cattle is related to a disease in humans called new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD).
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