Re: Mad cow disease in Alberta?
Mad cow disease, or BSE (bovine spongiform encephalo-pathy)<br />is a fatal disease that eats away the brain in <br />cattle, and was first reported in Britian in 1986<br /><br />Scientists suspect BSE contaminated beef, <br />particularly central nervous system tissues,<br />used as food may cause a form of Creutzfeldt-jakob<br />disease (CJD) in humans, calling the BSE-triggered<br />disease variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease or vCJDA<br />About 100 people have died from the disease.<br /><br />Symptoms are considerable pain in the legs and<br />arms. Dementia, personality change and movement<br />problems quickly appear, followed by coma and death.
