Sentences with phrase «transmit mad cow»

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It could, however, potentially carry other pathogens that might be transmitted to humans, such as the protein that causes mad cow disease.

Her research focuses on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), a class of brain diseases that includes «mad cow disease» and that can be transmitted by injecting or ingesting infectious tissue.

Food safety officials in Britain had assured consumers that bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, could not be transmitted to humans by eating beef from sick cows.

Although endemic in Europe for centuries, the sheep disease known as scrapie achieved notoriety only during the 1980s, when it was apparently transmitted to cows in Britain via infected sheep remains in cattle feed, thereby causing mad cow disease.

Earlier in her career, Dr. Lasmézas» research provided the first experimental evidence that the prion disease «mad cow disease» had been transmitted to humans, causing variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease.