English-French translations for bovine spongiform encephalopathy

• encéphalopathie spongiforme bovine
  L'encéphalopathie spongiforme bovine nous a montré, en tout cas, les insuffisances de notre système actuel. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy has shown us, in any case, the inadequacies of our current system.
  Objet: Augmentation de l'encéphalopathie spongiforme bovine (ESB) ou "maladie de la vache folle" en Espagne du fait de l'attitude "irresponsable" des autorités Subject: Irresponsible rise in cases of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or 'Mad cow disease' in Spain
  . Dès 1989, les risques de contamination de l’homme, par l’agent de l’encéphalopathie spongiforme bovine (ESB), étaient prévisibles. .As far back as 1989, the dangers of humans being contaminated by the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) agent were foreseeable.

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.

Related words

• bovine
• bovinely
• bovine ephemeral fever
• Bovine virus diarrhea
• bovine bolete
• bovine farcy
• bovine haemorrhagic septicaemia
• bovine theileriosis
• bovine trypanosomosis