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Categories: Articles with short description, Food safety in the European Union, Foodborne illnesses, Infectious diseases with eradication efforts, Bovine diseases
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bovine spongiform encephalitis  BSE  mad cow disease  bovine spongiform encephalopathy  bovine spongiform enecelophalopathy
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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow disease, is an incurable and invariably fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle. Wikipedia
Neurodegenerative disease of cattle. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Cattle disease caused by proteinaceous infectious particles. OmegaWiki
A fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which is transmissible to humans through misshaped prion proteins, caused by eating infected tissues. Wiktionary
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Wiktionary (translation)
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The outbreaks of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) have limited some traditional uses of cattle for food, for example the eating of brains or spinal cords. Wiktionary