MAD COW DISEASE PROJECT

WHAT CASUES IT

• Experts are not sure but they think it's from the cows eating infected meat

HOW LONG IT TAKES TO SHOW SYMPTOMS

• It takes about 6 months to show symptoms

HOW IS IT TRANSMITTED

• It is a brain disease that cattle can only get also it's a rare disease that effects the brain and spinal cord

IS IT INFECTIOUS

• No mad cow disease is not infectious only cows can get the disease humans can get a different kind of mad cow disease but it's will not be the disease cows have

WHAT EFFECT DOES IT HAVE

• Over the years experts found out it makes cows very jumpy also they don't live as long because hurts the brain in to a more spongy brain

CURE?

• Couldn't be cured but medication may help the cow with the disease doctors have meds for the cows nerves

VERY RARE

• Fewer then 1,000 us cases per year mad cow disease is and un likely disease

DISCOVERED

• Was discovered in great Britain in 1986

EFFECTS.

• Effects brain and spin in cattle

HOW TO AVOID IT

• By not eating any food with animal brain or spinal cord tissue

SYMTOMPS

• Problems with Condensation muscle contracts
• Sharp pains uncomfortable tinging
• Jumpy and nervous

TREATMENTS

• Neurologist helps the nerves

EFFECTS OVER TIME

• Over time it destroys the brain and spinal cord

OFFSPRING

• A mother cow with mad cow disease can pass it on to a calf

FUN FACTS

• Humans cam not get this disease
• Only Cattle can get mad cow disease
• Takes 6 months for symptoms to show
• Effects the brain and spinal cord
• Cows become very jumpy while having this disease

SOURCES

• Webmd.com
• www.emedicinehealth.com
• Kidshealth.com
• Organic consumers.org
• Mayo clinic

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