Bovine Encephalopathy Spongiform - Symptoms, Causes and Treatment of Bovine Encephalopathy Spongiform

What is Bovine Encephalopathy Spongiform?

Bovine Encephalopathy Spongiform is a chronic degenerative disease which affects the inner nervous system of cattle caused by the infection with a very uncommon infectious agent. It is a disease of both human as well as animals and in animals it is mostly occur to the sheep and goats. It affects to the brain of the cattle.

Causes of Bovine Encephalopathy Spongiform

The causes of Bovine Encephalopathy Spongiform is an infectious agent which is unknown, though other agent is implicated but the theory accepted the agent is prion. Eating feed contaminated with the infectious BSE agent can make a cattle infected. Dietary exposure to feedstuffs containing infected meat and bone meal may result in Bovine Encephalopathy Spongiform

Where is the BSE agent found in cattle?

This BSE agent mostly affects in brain, trigeminal ganglia, tonsils, spinal cord, dorsal root ganglion, and distal ileum of the small intestine of cattle.

Can transmitted from one animal to another animal?

It does not spread from one animal to another animal through direct contact because it is not a contagious disease.

Sign of BSE

• progressive degeneration of the nervous system
• nervousness or aggression
• incoordination and difficulty in rising
• decreased milk production
• loss of body weight

Treatment of BSE

There is no treatment or BSE, it is ultimately result in death.