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Mad Cow Disease
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Mad Cow Disease
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Causes, symptoms, effects on humans, British govt. & public reaction to outbreak, economics.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages) |
7 sources |
1996
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"Many people claim that they want less government. In the case of Great Britain's problems with "mad cow disease" this is exactly what they got. Yet few people can be pleased. On March 20, 1996, the United Kingdom Health Minister announced that ten relatively young people had died of a very rare brain disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), that generally attacks only a very few elderly people. The minister reported that "the most likely explanation at present is that these cases are linked to exposure to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow disease (Bonte-Friedheim A10). This is tragic and alarming but it is also outrageous. BSE has been a serious problem for Britain for a long time yet "for a decade [the Conservative government] has dismissed concerns raised by some scientists that humans could contract the disease by eating the meat of diseased..."More papers on Mad Cow Disease:
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Mad Cow Disease (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 12, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Essay-Mad-Cow-Disease/11544
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