English-Portuguese translations for bovine spongiform encephalopathy

• encefalopatia espongiforme bovina
  A encefalopatia espongiforme bovina demonstrou-nos, pelo menos, as insuficiências do nosso sistema actual.Bovine spongiform encephalopathy has shown us, in any case, the inadequacies of our current system.
  Objecto: Aumento irresponsável da encefalopatia espongiforme bovina (BSE) ou doença das "vacas loucas" em Espanha Subject: Irresponsible rise in cases of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or 'Mad cow disease' in Spain
  - Já em 1989, os riscos de contaminação do homem pelo agente da encefalopatia espongiforme bovina (BSE) eram previsíveis. .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