A New Case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (“Mad Cow” Disease) in France

France announced last month a new case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), popularly known as “Mad Cow Disease,” in a four year old female cow. This is the first case of this type of BSE in France since 2011, but follows on the heels of two other cases in Europe just last year, one in Ireland and the other in Wales. BSE cases are very rare today, but the French case raises some interesting, and slightly disturbing, questions.

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