What are the symptoms of mad cow disease

Mad cow disease is also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, which is a new disease in the world. Many friends don’t know much about this disease. Generally, after suffering from mad cow disease, the nerves will become confused and gradually become demented. If not treated, death will occur soon. Therefore, it is necessary to understand its symptoms in time. Let’s take a look at the symptoms of mad cow disease!

1. Eating beef and its products infected with mad cow disease can also cause infection, especially meat removed from the spine (generally German beef sausages are made from this meat);

2. Some cosmetics use ingredients made from animals in addition to plant materials, so cosmetics may also contain mad cow disease virus (the organs or tissues of cattle and sheep used in cosmetics include: placenta, amniotic fluid, collagen, brain sugar);

3. Some scientists believe that the reason why "mad cow disease" mutates into "Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease" in humans is not because of eating beef infected with mad cow disease, but is directly caused by environmental pollution. It is believed that excessive levels of metallic manganese in the environment may be the cause of mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

There is currently no effective treatment for mad cow disease. The only way is to prevent and control the spread of the virus among livestock. Once a cow is found to be infected with mad cow disease, it must be slaughtered and incinerated or buried deep. However, there is also a view that even if the cows infected with mad cow disease are incinerated, the ashes still contain the mad cow disease virus. If the ashes are dumped in the field, the virus may spread.

Currently, it is still unclear how the virus spreads among livestock and how it is transmitted to humans.

Through the above introduction, I believe that friends should have a detailed understanding of the cause of mad cow disease. You must not eat cows infected with mad cow disease. If you eat them, people will also be infected with mad cow disease. Everyone must pay attention to this. In daily life, you must also pay more attention to hygiene in your diet.