Unbelievable Facts About Mad Cow Disease And Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Mad Cow Dates Back To 1986

The first reported case of mad cow disease was unraveled in Great Britain in 1986. It’s possible it may not have occurred in cattle prior to then, but it came from the scrapie agent which had been discovered in sheep from the United Kingdom for two hundred years prior. Once word of this first case was known, cattle were rapidly infected across the country and about one thousand new cases of mad cow disease were being reported per week by 1993. Bans were placed on protein supplements around this time.

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