Mad_Cow_1

Mad Cow 1 Have you ever found yourself at home watching television and the latest Wendy’s commercial comes on advertising their newest burger' Suddenly you find yourself thinking, “It sure would be nice to have that nice juicy burger.” Sure you have, and that is the entire point of the commercial. However, do you ever stop to think what the consequences could be in eating that burger' No one ever stops to think that they could possibly contract Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human form of the bovine ailment known as “mad cow” disease. This disease is not a great concern at this point in the United States, but it is sweeping across Europe at an alarming rate. Even though “madcow” disease was not considered a very threatening disease in the past, studies show that if not curbed, this disease has the capability to turn into an epidemic. “Mad cow” disease, known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, (BSE) is thought to be transmitted when cattle eat meat-based animal feed. This feed, meat and bone meal ground from the carcasses and entrails of cattle or sheep and then fed to the other cattle, is considered the most likely channel by which the disease, cattle, mad-cow, united, wendy’s, think, therefore, states, infected, human, form, ever, europe, commercial, burger, beef, yourself, very, upon, thought, testing, sure, stop, spreads, should, scientists, point, people, parts, one, nice, nations, months, mad, leader