ow Disease should be taken very seriously because it can affect the whole world, even if your country is unaffected by the disease. Mad Cow is not a new disease, for it has been around for a few decades. Precautions and regulations should have been set for European countries and the United States a long time ago. Luckily the United States has been blessed with the geographical difference from the rest of the commotion going on in the European nations. This paper discusses the history and the time of infection for most of the counties in the infected areas; furthermore, the economic agriculture affected in countries, and the economic effect on the United States; and what exactly the government and other countries are doing to protect themselves and other nation from the spread and incubation of this disease.DescriptionWhat is Mad Cow Disease? Mad Cow Disease “is a normally extremely rare neurological disorder that affects the central nervous system of an animal and a human. The disease infested brain of the animal or human is slowly, progressively, and severely damaged. It has been categorized as a disease, which falls into the category of a disease known as Spongiform Encephalopathy. Having Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy is an over-dramatized way of specifying that one has diseased brain tissue which is; spongy, porous, and no longer in tact”(Brown 1).Symptom of BSE in CattleCattle that are affected by this deadly disease will obviously have some clinical signs. They will show signs of aggression, atypical posture, difficulty in rising, decrease in milk production, and eventually the affected cattle will die (Clinical Signs BSE). HistoryThe disease, discovered in Europe, has spread its degeneration and has culminated since 1980 and continues to spread its degeneration from across the seas to our melting pot. In the week of January 28th – February 2, 2001 Lexis Nexis reports 719 press releases expressing the s...
