Raji Ram
Active member
oh! Renu.... poor cow.. It may be suffering with Alzheimer's disease. It is totally lapse of mind from its part
Please read this: It is NOT a joke!!
About BSE
Beef cattle grazing. (Image courtesy USDA)
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BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) is a progressive neurological disorder of cattle that results from infection by an
unusual transmissible agent called a prion. The nature of the transmissible agent is not well understood. Currently, the most
accepted theory is that the agent is a modified form of a normal protein known as prion protein. For reasons that are not yet
understood, the normal prion protein changes into a pathogenic (harmful) form that then damages the central nervous
system of cattle.
Research indicates that the first probable infections of BSE in cows occurred during the 1970's with two cases of BSE
being identified in 1986. BSE possibly originated as a result of feeding cattle meat-and-bone meal that contained BSE-
infected products from a spontaneously occurring case of BSE or scrapie-infected sheep products. Scrapie is a prion
disease of sheep. There is strong evidence and general agreement that the outbreak was then amplified and
spread throughout the United Kingdom cattle industry by feeding rendered, prion-infected, bovine meat-and-
bone meal to young calves.