Bovine spongiform encephalopathy foci detected in 5 countries - Rosselkhoznadzor

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) foci were identified in five countries in 2021, follows from the report of the information and analytical center of ROSSELKHOZNADZOR on the epizootic situation in the world.

So, two outbreaks were registered in Brazil and Spain, one each in the UK, Germany and CANADA.

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease, is a prion disease that causes permanent changes in the animal's brain.

Mad cow disease first appeared in the UK in the 1980s and has spread to many parts of the world. The reason was that farmers fed their livestock with MEAT and bone meal from dead and infected animals.

In humans, prions that enter the body with the meat of an infected animal can cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a fatal brain damage similar to mad cow disease.