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

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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’

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