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AMSA - BSE Resources (1625 words) |
 | BSE is a chronic, degenerative disorder that affects the brain and central nervous system in adult cattle after a long incubation period. |
| BSE is one of several known transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE), which include scrapie (affecting sheep and goats), chronic wasting disease or CWD (affecting deer and elk), transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME) and feline spongiform encephalopathy (FSE). |
| BSE, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is a chronic, degenerative disorder that affects the brain and central nervous system in adult cattle after a long incubation period. |
| US FDA/CFSAN - Commonly Asked Questions About BSE in Products Regulated by FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied ... (2521 words) |
| The exact cause of BSE is not known but it is generally accepted by the scientific community that the likely cause is infectious forms of a type of protein, prions, normally found in animals cause BSE. |
| In cattle with BSE, these abnormal prions initially occur in the small intestines and tonsils, and are found in central nervous tissues, such as the brain and spinal cord, and other tissues of infected animals experiencing later stages of the disease. |
| BSE is a Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE), a family of similar diseases that may infect certain species of animals and people such as scrapie in sheep and goats, BSE in cattle, chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer and elk, and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) in people. |
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