Mad cow disease
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Mad cow disease paper Bovine spongiform encephalophathy ( BSE), which is mainly known as mad cow disease has infected the society and has put the lives of individuals at risk. This was very frightening to the people that ate meat during that time. The terrified people would not even want to eat hamburgers at MacDonald, steak at restaurant and much more. What also alarmed the people was the fact that there was a possibility of getting the human form of mad cow disease. This was called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) which is through tainted blood, but this was only a theory which was later proven wrong. Authorities in the United Kingdom said there was an adult who died from vCJD in early December 2003. They believed that he obtained this illness by a blood transfusion during surgery seven and a half years earlier. His donated blood came from what...


