Nacario's Digital Scrapbook

• A Spanish mother in her 60s died of mad cow disease like her son who was 41 prior, making the Spanish death toll 4.
• This was the first case ever in which two members of a family were killed by mad cow disease.
• A ten-year gap between consuming contaminated foods can pass before it shows physical signs of affect on a person.
• isolation of infected animals are the first steps to avoid the disease bean after the first signs of mad cow, however the family who had contracted the disease most likely have eaten the contaminated meat before the isolation began.
• There are 3 separate reports of mad cow within the Province.
• I find that this article links with our Cell Unit because we discussed Mad Cow disease for some time in class. We discussed how proteins manipulated neighboring proteins within the brain to become abnormal and cause damage to the brain. Overtime, this protein would spread and cause the brain to become spongy with holes in it.

I am surprised that mad cow disease cases are not reported as often. I think it is due to our location in the USA and that fact that we have already taken actions to reduce the disease. If I am wrong them perhaps the government is tying loose ends in order to keep the food industry alive. Beef is consumed by people everywhere and if we saw how much contaminated meat there really is, then we may be picky on what we eat. The result from eating less meat would in most cases weaken the economy because meat is a huge in America in particular. If the people saw how our beef is created, we can be revolted and the threat of mad cow disease would be known by everyone and more action would be taken to fix it.

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