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| Title: | Mad Cow Disease
: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy |
| Author: | Geoffrey S Becker, Curtis W Copeland & Sarah A Lister |
| ISBN: | 1604563249 : 9781604563245 |
| Illustrations: | tables |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 180x260mm |
| Pages: | 132 |
| Weight: | .338 Kg. |
| Published: | Nova Science Publishers - July 2008 |
| List Price: | 32.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Neurology & clinical neurophysiology |
This book presents important analyses of current issues in BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy or "mad cow disease") as a fatal neurological disease of cattle, believed to be transmitted mainly by feeding infected cattle parts back to cattle. More than 187,000 cases have been reported world-wide, 183,000 of them in the United Kingdom (UK) where BSE was first identified in 1986. The annual number of new cases has declined steeply since 1992. Humans who eat contaminated beef are believed susceptible to a rare but fatal brain wasting disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD). About 160 people have been diagnosed with vCJD since 1986, most in the UK and none linked to any Canadian or U.S. meat consumption.
Preface; Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, or "Mad Cow Disease"): Current and Proposed Safeguards; Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, or "Mad Cow Disease") in North America: A Chronology of Selected Events; Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy ("Mad Cow Disease") and Canadian Beef Imports; Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Mad Cow Disease): Agricultural Issues for Congress; BSE ("Mad Cow Disease"): A Brief Overview; Index.
