What is the beef fungus encephalitis?
Beef spongiform encephalitis is portable diseases that cause the nervous system degeneration in cattle. Although it has a long incubation period that may last up to eight years as soon as the symptoms appear, the animal will die within a few short weeks or months. Because it causes brain damage and spinal cord, symptoms may vary from changes in behavior to coordination. Bovine spongiform encephalitis, also known as a disease of mad cows, is always fatal. There is no treatment. It can manifest both changes in behavior and a gradual decline in coordination. Although it may have a healthy appetite, the animal can lose weight and its milk production can decrease. It will continue to deteriorate until they die or are destroyed. Millions of cows were destroyed in an effort to prevent the spread of beef spongiform encephalitis.
was first discovered in November 1986, when a new form of neurological disease was recognized in cattle on livestock lobbies in the UK. Studies have shown that cattle have been infectedAfter ingestion of feed, which was processed using parts of the infected cow. Later, it was found that many people ate beef from sick animals that were killed before any symptoms of cattle encephalitis were manifested.
At the beginning of December 2003, an event was held in the United States, which was supposed to have global consequences. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) assumed that the non -umbrella cow called "Downer" was deactivated for complications of childbirth and not from illness, and it was decided that his meat was safe. After the Downer was killed, his meat was sent to be drawn into the feed. The samples taken from the Downer cow subsequently tested positively for bohencephalitis of the vines, and 53 countries immediately banned imports of American beef and beef products. Shortly thereafter, USDA forbade the lower cows to be rendered into animal feed, and also forbid many beef products in the entryto the human food chain.
Beef spongiform encephalitis is transmitted to people who can infect it by consuming a meat product from an infected cow. In humans, the disease is called Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease. Eating meat from an infected animal is not the only cause of Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease and symptoms are identical to the symptoms of beef spongiform encephalitis.