everities of Mad Cow Disease, in which half of the stories originated from England (McArthur 1). How does this dreadful disease that affects humans and animals occur? First discovered in slaughtered sheep and unmanageable cattle, which were killed due to difficulties in monitoring their behaviors and actions by their owners. After the sheep and cattle were slaughtered, autopsies where conducted, in which the Encephalopathic brain consistency was found, which can be described as a brain that becomes porous in physical actuality and appearance. It has been noted that cattle harvests are fed sheep bone meal as a supplement to their normal diets. Some sheep that are made into bone meal carry a disease called Scrapie, which causes Mad Cow Disease in other animals that feed off this bone meal. One conclusion to the development and spread of Mad Cow Disease could be made that a cow digested some Scrapie (a infested sheep) bone meal, thus causing the cattle to develop the infections through spreadingagent know as Prion, which is an acronym for proteinaceous particle. Prions are small, fast moving and destructive particles that the humans and animals can cultivate. Prions are dominant and being so, allows them to be unconquerable so that they can “pass through a filter that stops most viruses, survive thermal, radiation and chemical treatments and contains no DNA and RNA (University of Wisconsin 1-4).Medical ConcernsThe growing concern for the existence of this disease has been brought about due to several cases of illness, which are imminent to death and have been brought to the public’s attention; just due to each individual consuming eighty or more meals of beef that were contaminated with Mad Cow Disease. It has also been noted that in the last ten years, there have been 1.5 million BSE infected animals, which can be easily detected through autopsy (Martin 1-3). All of the people who have been diagnosed with the dis...
