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Question

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy is a bovine disease. To which of the following human diseases it is related ?  

Options

A.Kala-azar
B.Encephalitis
C.Cerebral spondylitis
D.Creutzfeldt Jacob disease

Solution

 Bovine spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) is a fatal brain disease known to exists in beef and other dairy cattle in UK, also known as mad cow disease. It is believed to be caused by prions. Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD) is a slow degenerative disease among human affecting central nervous among human affecting central nervous system with dysfunction and degeneration of the brain Some scientists have suggested that a few people in Britain might have contracted CJD by eating BSE-infected beef.

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