English-Italian translations for bovine spongiform encephalopathy

• encefalopatia spongiforme bovina
  L'encefalopatia spongiforme bovina ha mostrato chiaramente le carenze del nostro sistema attuale. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy has shown us, in any case, the inadequacies of our current system.
  Oggetto: Espansione irresponsabile dell'encefalopatia spongiforme bovina (BSE), o malattia della 'mucca pazza?, in Spagna Subject: Irresponsible rise in cases of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or 'Mad cow disease' in Spain
  . – Fin dal 1989 i rischi di contaminazione per l’uomo tramite l’agente dell’encefalopatia spongiforme bovina (BSE) erano prevedibili. .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