Medicine

How is BSE passed from animals to humans?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/bse-passed-animals-humans-262417.html" >How is BSE passed from animals to humans?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

... it is not yet known exactly how the disease is passed from animals to humans.

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about prion . Or, view the full encyclopedia entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Similar questions: What caused the transmission of BSE from animals to humans? How do humans contract BSE from animals? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

BSE not passed on from cow to calf says research chief.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) ...banned since 1996 but that animals are still going down...cattle infected with BSE is believed to be the...present. The number of BSE cases has dropped from...suspected of suffering from BSE have been slaughtered...BSE. However, feeding animal protein to cattle was...the sale of beef ...
BSE 'can be passed on in blood'.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) ...Scientists have found that the human form of mad cow disease...sheep deliberately given BSE, or mad cow disease...Creuzfeldt Jakob Disease in humans is now considered to be BSE in a different guise...from the Institute for Animal Health in Edinburgh...no evidence that the human ...
FDA releases long-awaited proposals to strengthen BSE safeguards in U.S.(Animal...
Magazine article from: Feedstuffs ...feeds and feeding human plate waste and...considered concerning BSE; * An interim...industry, USDA's Animal & Plant...proposed national animal identification...ambulatory cattle and animals that die on farms...projects using such animal resources for...infectious agent for ...
Mad cow disease hits Welsh farm; Three animals test positive for BSE.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) ...surveillance - whereby animals which have apparently...reasons other than BSE are examined for the...the food chain. 'BSE has been in decline...close eye on.' The BSE or 'mad cow' disease...the disease could be passed on to humans manifesting as Creutzfeldt...
Could sheep brain disease be passed to humans?
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) ...disease could be passed to humans and is to discuss...there are any human health implications...investigating human and animal brain diseases...transmissible to humans must be considered...spread between animals. However, it...of a risk to human health, but...possible ...
See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.