bovine spongiform encephalopathy

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counterpart in cattle to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

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Fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle

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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, is an incurable and always fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle. Symptoms include abnormal behavior, trouble walking, and weight loss. Later in the course of the disease, the cow becomes unable to function normally. There is conflicting information about the time between infection and onset of symptoms. In 2002, the World Health Organization suggested it to be approximately four to five years. Time from onset of symptoms to death is generally weeks to months. Spread to humans is believed to result in variant Creutzfeldt???Jakob disease (vCJD) or Creutzfeldt???Jakob disease (CJD). As of 2024, a total of 233 cases of vCJD had been reported globally.

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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy

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