Mad Cow Disease
Bovine spongiform encephalophathy ( BSE), which is mainly known as
mad cow disease has infected the society and has put the lives of
individuals at risk. This was very frightening to the people that ate
meat during that time. The terrified people would not even want to eat
hamburgers at MacDonald, steak at restaurant and much more. What also
alarmed the people was the fact that there was a possibility of
getting the human form of mad cow disease. This was called variant
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) which is through tainted blood, but
this was only a theory which was later proven wrong. Authorities in
the United Kingdom said there was an adult who died from vCJD in early
December 2003. They believed that he obtained this illness by a blood
transfusion during surgery seven and a half years earlier. His donated
blood came from what they thought was a healthy person in 1996, who
apparently died three years later from vCJD. No one really knows what
causes BSE, but what theories the scientists say might cause this
disease is a protein called a prion. This occurrence made the people
even more worried, this would also lead to business failure for the
beef industries.
Canada’s beef industry was shattered on May 20, 2003 when they found
out that a cow in northern Alberta was tested positive for mad cow
disease. Canada at the
time was the third largest exporter of beef in the world. After the
mad cow incident during the months of June July and August the values
of the Canadian exports went down to ...
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... meat and you decide to still
keep on doing so, your best way to protect your self if to know where
the animal is raised. Getting the meat from a local farmer is safer
and if you can go and visit the farm to see what is going around. Ask
questions to the farmer and keep a good eye out on knowing how the
farmer
takes his work seriously. Good questions to ask are how do you raise
your animals? Do you get them tested for mad cow disease? Are they
feed any antibiotics with their food. Are also hormones given to the
animal Questions like those. Great farmers you should look for are the
ones who don’t feed their animals with animal products but pasture
which is. Something to look out for is if your farmers name and phone
number does not appear anywhere, odd are that the meats they are
selling were not raised properly.
Francisella tularensis is a bacteria that is commonly referred to as Rabbit Fever. This microorganism is often known as this because the bacteria resides in mammals such as rabbits, squirrels and mice (UPMC Center for Health Security, 2013). There are many different components to this bacteria that make it unique. The microorganism F. tularensis is one that has very unique characteristics that make it responsible for being the kind of bacteria that it is. It is a gram-negative bacteria that occurs in coccobacillus form. It is a non-motile bacteria that is commonly found in water, mud, and decaying animal carcasses. (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, 2013). Because of these characteristics, F. tularensis is able to live in these conditions for weeks (UPMC Center for Health Security, 2013). For all of these reasons, this microorganism can be potentially harmful to humans.
The neighborhood I live in is small and has two small farms nearby. By the looks of it they only grow greenery. The lands that Vineland
would be or how much harder it would be to stay on the farm. His
the other farm hands would be out working, thus they'd have a better chance of
and eventually leaving the group. When the farm faces a drought, many other farms around them
Most issues on a farm return to the issue of keeping up appearances. (Smiley p.199)
to my comrades about how we could make the farm better for us to live
safe things to do to protect yourself or anyone else from possible harm. As many
with row crops or with livestock. We need to understand the industry, and in doing so, we will
Although most people don't realize it, one of the most weakening diseases of the world can often be found crawling around in the shrubs and tall grasses of a person’s backyard .It does not mean that only dirty yards have this disease but it is found in every Americans backyard. The disease is called Lyme disease. Now I will be elaborating on the disease.
even to work on a farm, you need to have quite a lot of skill. The
In recent history, farming in America has changed dramatically, and Naylor’s farm is representative of many in the American Corn Belt. Though it began growing a variety of crops and keeping livestock too, Naylor now only plants corn and soybeans. In Naylor’s grandfather’s days, the farm fed the whole family with just enough left over for twelve others. Now, Naylor indirectly feeds an estimated 129 people, but this does not mean his farm is any more successful. In fact, Naylor’s farm cannot financially support his family.
Dutch disease is a phenomenon that occurs when a country experiences a resource boom (Bimenyimana & Vallée, 2011). This may be due to a major discovery or to a significant increase in the price of the resource (Bimenyimana & Vallée, 2011). Thus, there is a high demand for the currency of the that country, which causes it to appreciate (Bimenyimana & Vallée, 2011). Subsequently, the manufacturing sector suffers a decline, both in output and employment, because the local manufacturers have a difficulty competing domestically and abroad (Bimenyimana & Vallée, 2011). It becomes a “disease” when the manufacturing sector is unable to rebound following the end of the resource boom (Beine, Bos, & Coulombe, 2012). This phenomenon was first observed in the Netherlands during the 1960s (Bimenyimana & Vallée, 2011).
The Black Death is a very terrible disease that killed a large amount of people. The year that this pandemic started was 1348 and went on to last for another 12 years (history staff). This is thought to be the worst disease ever, it took more lives than any other pandemic or war before its time (Encyclopedia). The symptoms of this sickness will prove those thoughts to be correct.