Hindsight blinkers Britain's mad cow disease response
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Hindsight blinkers Britain's mad cow disease response
Like the Phillips report itself (see box below) into Britain’s handling of the outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the so-called mad cow disease, the newspaper stories accompanying its launch were inevitably written with hindsight. But while the report acknowledged the risks this entailed, press coverage was less scrupulous. Much of it also failed to reflect the scientific uncer...
متن کاملMad cow disease
The correct name for Mad Cow Disease is Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and I will use this abbreviation throughout the text. BSE was first detected in England in 1985. Since then millions of cattle have been slaughtered either because they were infected or for precautionary measures. Payment for compensation to the farmers has cost the UK Government some Euro 6 billion. Although the UK ...
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متن کاملBSE--bovine spongiform encephalopathy ('mad cow disease').
About BSE BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) is a progressive neurological disorder of cattle that results from infection by an unusual transmissible agent called a prion. The nature of the transmissible agent is not well understood. Currently, the most accepted theory is that the agent is a modified form of a normal protein known as prion protein. For reasons that are not yet understood, t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(00)00838-1