Abstract
Mad Cow Disease or BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) became a household name internationally and also in South Africa. International hysteria resulted following reports of a possible link between a disease diagnosed in cattle in Britain and a variant of the disease diagnosed in humans after the presumed ingestion or contact with meat from infected cattle. The European Union instituted a ban on the importation of beef from the United Kingdom during March 1996 that had a severe effect on the beef industry in the UK and also resulted in a world wide consumer resistance against beef consumption.
Highlights
Mad Cow D isease o r B SE (B ovine Spongiform E ncephalopathy) becam e a hoii.sehold nam e internationally and in South Africa
Bees Spongiform e Enkefalopatie of malkoeisiekte soos dit algem een bekend geraak hct, is vir die eerste keer in 1986 in die suidelike dele van Engeland gediagnoseer.^ Intensiewe epidemiologiese studies het die vermoede bevestig dat die mees waarskynlike oorsaak van die siekte by beeste sy oorsprong hel in die voer van proteinekragvoer in die vorm van vIeis- en beenmeel
Een van die redes wat aangegee word waarom die voer van die karkasmaleriaal eers in 1986 lot die uilbreking van ’n soortgelyke siekte by beeste aanleiding gegee het, was die verandering in die proses van vervaardiging van die karkasmeel, wat die oorlewing van die scrapieveroorsakende organisme begunstig hel en gevolglik beeste besm el het
Summary
Mad Cow D isease o r B SE (B ovine Spongiform E ncephalopathy) becam e a hoii.sehold nam e internationally and in South Africa. Die verbod wat nou bykans agt maande later nog steeds streng toegepas word met min vooruitsigte dat dit gou opgehefsal word, het nie net die veebedryf in die Verenigde Koninkryk bykans lamgelê nie, inaar het ook ’n wêreldwye verbruikersweerstand teen die gebruik van beesvleis tot gevolg gehad.
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