Unbelievable Facts About Mad Cow Disease And Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Mad cow disease, discovered in the 1980s, sparks a frenzy among meat eaters all over the world every time a new case is discovered. This condition was an epidemic among cows in the United Kingdom from 1986 to 2001. From 1993 to 2015 in the United States, there were twenty-four cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cows and twenty in Canada. Statistics for humans with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a similar condition from 1996 to 2014 recorded 229 cases in twelve countries, with the majority, 177, in the United Kingdom. France came second highest with twenty-seven cases, followed by Spain with five and the United States with four.