MAD COW DISEASE

SYMPTOMS OF MAD COW DISEASE

• Animals have symptoms related to the nervous system, like depression and loss of cordination
• Later in the illness, dementia develops but that is only in advanced stages of the disease

CAUSES OF MAD COW DISEASE

• The agent is hard to characterize, its neither a virus or bacteria
• It is classified as slow viral diseases can only affect other animals
• The structure of a protein is the amino acid
• It comes from a modified form of a normal cell & it can also affect the tissue
• It also eats away at the nervous system

HOW ITS TRANSMITTED

• Only transmitted by blood transfussion
• Both pathogens can be involved in the interaction
• Airborne prions are also infectious and can induce mad cow disease

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF MAD COW DISEASE

• First appeared in great brittan in 1986
• It is not an endemic in any particular area
• It is not spread through a population of the world because its not a normal sickness
• It can ONLY be transmitted by blood transfussion
• MCD is extremely rare in the U.S

TREATMENT OF MAD COW DISEASE

• The drugs used used to fix mad cow disease consist of :
• Trimipramine, an antidepresentt, and fluphenazine and antiphychotic

PROGNOSIS FOR FUTURE

• Mad cow disease does not affect humans and will not ever affect us
• It has also become very rare in the past 10 years

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