Do Cows Make You Mad?

Synopsis

Looks at bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or ‘mad cow disease’), the mysterious brain disease in cattle first reported in 1987. Three years later a cat died of the disease, and the risk to humans is still unknown. Various disturbing loopholes in precautions taken by the government are exposed. Participants in the programme include a MAFF veterinarian, a neurologist, an expert on scrapie, the veterinary epidemiologist who first identified the meat-and-bonemeal feed as a source of transmission of BSE, and the neurologist who monitors Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human parallel to BSE.

Series

Horizon, Series

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

Year of production

1990

Availability

Sale; 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Subjects

Veterinary science

Keywords

bovine spongiform encephalopathy; cattle; neurology

Production Company

Name

BBC Television

Distributor

Name

BBC Active Video for Learning - now BBC Learning

Contact

Carolina Fernandez Jeremy Wilcox (CF - for educational enquiries JW - channel sales manager)

Email

BBCStudiosLearning@bbc.com

Web

https://www.bbcstudioslearning.com/ External site opens in new window

Phone

+44 (0) 20 8433 1009

Address

BBC Studios Limited
Television Centre
101 Wood Lane
London
W12 7FA
UK

Notes

The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. Formerly known as ‘BBC Worldwide Learning Studies’ and before that as ‘Videos for Education & Training’