bovine spongiform encephalopathy
noun
: a fatal prion disease of cattle that affects the nervous system, resembles or is identical to scrapie of sheep and goats, and is probably transmitted by infected tissue in food
—abbreviation BSE
called also mad cow disease
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The exports were suspended in November after a case of atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, was discovered by Irish veterinary officials.
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Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 17 Jan. 2024
Food safety officials in Britain had assured consumers that bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, could not be transmitted to humans by eating beef from sick cows.
—Andrew Curry, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2013
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease comes from exposure to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), most often through consumption of infected cattle.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 9 June 2022
The official name of mad cow disease is bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
—Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 30 May 2021
It’s a prion disease with similarities to mad cow disease, which is scientifically known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
—Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 29 May 2021
The disease is part of a group called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, the most famous of which is bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease.
—Jim Robbins, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2020
And in 1989, the government banned imports of beef and lamb from regions, including Britain, affected by bovine spongiform encephalopathy, better known as mad cow disease.
—David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2020
Two decades ago, Chicago got caught up in cow fever — not bovine spongiform encephalopathy, but a benign form of art-cow madness.
—Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2019
Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 17 Jan. 2024
Food safety officials in Britain had assured consumers that bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, could not be transmitted to humans by eating beef from sick cows.
—Andrew Curry, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2013
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease comes from exposure to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), most often through consumption of infected cattle.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 9 June 2022
The official name of mad cow disease is bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
—Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 30 May 2021
It’s a prion disease with similarities to mad cow disease, which is scientifically known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
—Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 29 May 2021
The disease is part of a group called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, the most famous of which is bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease.
—Jim Robbins, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2020
And in 1989, the government banned imports of beef and lamb from regions, including Britain, affected by bovine spongiform encephalopathy, better known as mad cow disease.
—David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2020
Two decades ago, Chicago got caught up in cow fever — not bovine spongiform encephalopathy, but a benign form of art-cow madness.
—Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2019
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