Exclusion of liability
CSS offers no guarantee for the accuracy and completeness of the information. The information published is no substitute for professional advice from a doctor or pharmacist.
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), known colloquially as mad cow disease, is an animal disease.
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), known colloquially as mad cow disease, is an animal disease. Animals become infected with prions (misfolded proteins) when eating contaminated meat-and-bone meal. The animals exhibit changes in behaviour and movement disorders. Eating meat contaminated by BSE can cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) in humans.
(In cattle)
Risk of new BSE infections has been drastically reduced
Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office, FSVO (Bundesamt für Lebensmittelsicherheit und Veterinärwesen, BLV)
www.blv.admin.ch/blv/en/home.html
mad cow disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE
CSS offers no guarantee for the accuracy and completeness of the information. The information published is no substitute for professional advice from a doctor or pharmacist.