English-Finnish translations for bovine spongiform encephalopathy

  • hullun lehmän tauti- (EL) Arvoisa puhemies, me kaikki tiedämme, että kriisi, jonka BSE-tauti, hullun lehmän tauti, aiheutti, on rikos, joka on vielä rankaisematta, ja epäilen, että sellaiseksi se jää. - (EL) Mr President, we all know that the bovine spongiform encephalopathy crisis, the mad cow crisis, is yet another crime which has not been punished, and I doubt it ever will.
  • naudan spongiforminen enkefalopatiaJärkyttyneinä olemme todenneet, että jopa Luxemburgissa eräässä lehmässä on todettu naudan spongiforminen enkefalopatia ja että myös sitä oltiin käytetty luujauhojen valmistukseen. We discovered later that even in Luxembourg a cow was infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and its carcass was also turned into meal.

Definition of bovine spongiform encephalopathy

  • A fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which is transmissible to humans through misshaped prion proteins, caused by eating infected tissues

Examples

  • The outbreaks of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) have limited some traditional uses of cattle for food, for example the eating of brains or spinal cords.

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