Mad Cow Disease - Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	nova science publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Geoffrey S. Becker • Curtis W Copeland • Sarah A. Lister
Dimensions:	180 x 260 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	132
ISBN-13:	978-1-60456-324-5
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Neurology & clinical neurophysiology Promotions > Loot Warehouse Clearance Sale > Books
LSN:	1-60456-324-9
Barcode:	9781604563245

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