mad cow disease

noun

Examples of mad cow disease in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web These include mad cow disease, which affects mostly cattle, scrapie, which affects sheep, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which kills about 350 Americans a year ‒ most within months of their first symptom. Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024 In 1998, a jury in Amarillo, Texas, rejected an $11 million lawsuit brought by Texas cattlemen who blamed Oprah Winfrey’s talk show for a price fall after a segment on food safety that included a discussion about mad cow disease. The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2024 Unlike mad cow disease, where cattle are often infected in closer quarters, the disease has stumped scientists for most of its existence as deer, elk and moose — members of the cervid family — are mostly solitary in the wild. Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 8 May 2024 In the 1980s, concerns about bovine spongiform encephalopathy — or mad cow disease — took hold across Europe, when cases of the incurable and invariably fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle began to appear. Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for mad cow disease 

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First Known Use

1988, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of mad cow disease was in 1988

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“Mad cow disease.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mad%20cow%20disease. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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