Mad Cow's Disease

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How can Animals kill us? There are many diseases people catch from animals and insects known as Zoonose. Whether they are food, pet or just naturally flying. People are getting sick off of animals directly, indirectly or from the environment. For centuries people always had a close relationship with animals. Whether they are house pet, farm animals or food on a plate. People and animals go hand and hand. Animals and insects are important to nature just as humans. For many years people have discovered that animals contribute to our health, many people considered animals as a healthy way to live, but what about the dangerous and deadly diseases they carry? How can we avoid getting sick from animals? We all come into close contact we animals …show more content…

They produce many things that a portion of us need and use every day. There are also several dairy products such as cheese, yogurt, and ice cream. Products that come from cows are essential to our society and can play an important part of healthy living. Also many of us enjoy eating cows from steak, cow’s foot and etc. Cows are mainly raised on a farm unfortunately if they are not taking care of properly they can also make us sick. Mad cow’s disease is a contagious, slowly progressive, degenerative, and fatal disease affecting the central nervous system of adult cattle’s. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has tested hundreds of thousands of cattle for this disease. People catch mad cow disease by eating the meat of an affected cow this disease found in humans is called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). The symptoms found in humans are Dementia that rapidly worsens over a few weeks or months, blurred vision, changes walking Confusion, disorientation, Hallucinations, Lack of coordination, Muscle stiffness, Muscle twitching, myoclonic jerks or seizures, nervous, jumpy feelings, personality changes, sleepiness, speech impairment and it’s not curable. (Nunnally, Brian K., and Ira S.

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