date:Jul 20, 2017
d atypical types. Classic BSE is the form that caused deaths in the UK in the 1980s. This type has been linked to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) in people. People can contract this illness by eating beef contaminated with the infectious prion, which is not destroyed by cooking. Cows were given feed that contained cattle meat and bone. This has been prohibited by the FDA since 1997. The government also prohibited high risk tissue material in all animal feed in 2009.
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