What is ‘Madcow disease’?

Madcow disease as it is popularly known is called Bovine spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in medical science technology. This disease is a projective neurological. Disorder of cattle. In 1996. It was spread among cows in V.K causing widespread dangerous alert. In the world as it can be transmitted to other species including humans. In human it is called creutzfeldt – Jacob – disease, after the two doctors who first described the symptoms of the disease

This disease occurs in cows and therefore the term ‘Bovine’ is used It causes a sponge like destruction of the brains – so used term ‘enceph’ means brain and ‘pathy’ means pathology meaning an abnormality.

Its symptoms include:

i. Excitable or nervous. Temperant to external stimuli such as touch to the skin progressive unsteadiness of gait resulting eventually in the inability to stand up.

ii. The disease has proved virtually 100% fatal.

iii. In human creutzfeldt – Jakob causes memory loss, emotional instability including inappropriate outbursts, an unsteady gait progressing to marked weakness, serve rapidly progressive dementia and death after within a year of the onset of symptoms.