Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), regularly known as distraught dairy animals infection, is a lethal neurodegenerative ailment (encephalopathy) in steers that causes a supple degeneration in the cerebrum and spinal line.

BSE has a long brooding period, around 2.5 to 8 years, generally influencing grown-up steers at a top age onset of four to five years, all breeds being just as powerless. BSE is brought about by a misfolded protein—a prion. In the United Kingdom, the nation most noticeably bad influenced, more than 180,000 steers have been tainted and 4.4 million butchered.

It is notable that there are no cases reported in Brazil, where cattle are mainly fed outside on grass pasture and, mostly in Australia, grain feeding is done only as a final finishing process before the animals are slaughtered for meat.