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=__//Mad Cow Disease//__= //By: Matt Lorbeck,Ben Willams,Austin Bussiere,Grant Sobiek//

=Symptoms of the disease.= Some Symptoms are shaking there head, acting more aggressive than usual, and having a lot of trouble walking, as though they don’t know where to put there feet. Scientists did some tests and found something that they hadn’t seen before. The cow, they said, had been killed by a “novel progressive spongiform encephalopathy”—in other __words__, a new brain disease that gets worse over time. Usually, this disease breaks out on mink farms where the animals are reared for their fur. (It may also affect wild mink, but there has not been any known research conducted on these animals.)

=Locations of Mad Cow Disease.= The first reported case of TME was on a ranch inWisconsinin. The last outbreak was in 1985, when over 4,300 mink on a farm (again inWisconsin) died. The disease has also been found inCanada,Finland,Germany, and the former republics of theSoviet Union. Today, only two countries in the world,AustraliaandNew Zealand, are said to be __free__ of the disease. It was only in November 1986 that the disease we now know as BSE was officially recognized by British scientists. So how did this disease start and why did it spring up in the United Kingdom and not anywhere else?

In February 1985 a cattle started going crazy and shaking its head back and forth. Then later on scientist did some test and found something odd. It was something never seen before. Scientist had no clue what this was different. But later on scientist found out that the cattle were fed sheep brains and spinal cords that were infected. This weird bacteria is called vCJD. This bacterium makes the cattle’s brain go crazy. There is no early cure or. To this day there is still no cure fort the cattle or for the humans. This is not good because the first outbreak killed over 200,000 cattle and about 160 humans over the years. But now we know better to not feed are animals other infected animals. =How is mad cow disease transmitted.=

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Mad cow is a brain disease In cattle that causes odd behavior, difficult walking or even death. When people con sume cattle that has disease they can become very sick.Mad cow disease was first identified in 1986 in the United Kingdom, where sheep suffer from a similar disease called //scrapie////. The cattle can become carivores because of the disease.//Only certain animals can get BSE people don't actually get mad cow disease. However, experts have found a link between BSE and a rare brain condition that affects people, called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Researchers believe that people who eat beef from cows that have BSE are at risk of developing vCJD.===== BSE is an interesting disease from a medicil standpoint because of the causative agent, prions. A prion is an infectious protein that is similar to a virus, but not a typical virus.

=**How to cure mad cow?**= Mad cow is a virus which means that there is no medication to cure a virus. There is no cure for Mad Cow because it is a virus just like cancer and other virus like the common cold. However there are treatments that you can prescribe that can ease and slow down the virus. =**Mad Cow Cell**=

== =**How to prevent Mad Cow?**=

Scientists have figured out what triggers mad cow. They think it is food that triggers it, it depends on how clean the food is. Famers can still give chicken swept up food off the ground however they cannot for a cow. The only way mad cow can be transmitted is by eating the meat __form__ the cow. If there are no cows that have mad cow then people cannot get mad cow. Or one obvious way to prevent mad cow is to not eat meat.

=A Mad Cow cell attacking= =another cell=

=Mad Cow in The U.S=

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