Can humans get mad cow disease?
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), aka mad-cow disease, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that destroys brain and spinal cord. Infectious agent believed to be a misfolded protein called a prion. Transmitted to humans via contaminated food, especially brain, spinal cord, digestive tract of infected. A previous BSE outbreak killed more than 150 people in UK, but CDC says even after consuming contaminated products, risk is less than 1 in 10 billion. There is no cure.
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People cannot get mad cow disease, in rare cases they may get a human form of mad cow disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
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Technically, you can't get Mad Cow Disease or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy. Humans can get a mutation of the disease though.
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Yes. If humans eat diseased tissue from cattle, they may develop the human form of mad cow disease (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease).
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