land Journal of Medicine showed the human breast milk is capable of transmitting prions, which could be a mad cow prion, and it has also been demonstrated in sheep. The negligence that is installed by our government is bound to come around and hit the US when unexpected. Especially since the US is one of the highest consumption of beef in the world. As you are probably aware of at this time, Mad Cow Disease emerged in 1986. In 1989 the U.S. Department of Agriculture banned the import of cattle and other beef products from infected countries. In 1990’s the United States had prohibited the entry of live sheep and cattle, and rendered animals protein, from Britain. This occured to prevent the actual spread from animal to animal. At this time in history, it was thought that this regulation could stop the spread of the newly discovered disease. In the late 1990’s, scientists discovered the fact that the disease could be spread through ruminants, grass eating animals, and offal. In the year of 1997, the FDA banned the feeding of ruminant alpha to any members of the ruminant family. Most recently on May 26, 2001 President Bush signed the Animal Disease Risk Assessment, Prevention and Control Act of 2001. This act helps put together a team of agriculture, health and safety officials to ensure that the government is doing everything in their power to prevent the entrance of Mad Cow Disease and other foreign diseases to enter in the United States.How Are Countries Dealing with Mad Cow Disease? Mad Cow disease has effected everyone worldwide in some small or big way. Europe most of all has been drastically affected by this traumatizing disease, which has changed the way many Europeans eat or practice business. Countries like Germany, Italy, France, and Britain have all been exposed to this disease, which all of them are trying to contain and control it before things get out of hand.In Germany, the first case of Bovine Spo...
