How to Use mad cow disease in a Sentence

mad cow disease

noun

• Once the prions were passed to cows, the cows developed a prion disease of their own (mad cow disease).
  — Fiza Pirani, ajc, 25 May 2018
• But, the most well-known is bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE aka mad cow disease).
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 26 Apr. 2018
• Since 1999, those people have been banned from giving blood in the United States for fear that they’d been exposed to mad cow disease.
  — Jonel Aleccia, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2022
• Chronic wasting disease is caused by the same type of particle as mad cow disease, and has been found in a few Utah counties.
  — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Feb. 2022
• Lumpy skin disease broke out in Bangladeshi cattle, mad cow disease reemerged in Switzerland, and bovine ephemeral fever struck Australian cows.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
• Regulators have yet to approve a live test for CWD, which is similar to mad cow disease.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2021
• Some are patently self-explanatory: swine flu, bird flu, or mad cow disease.
  — Angus Chen, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2014
• The disease is similar to mad cow disease, as both are caused by infectious proteins called prions.
  — Jim Salter, The Seattle Times, 20 Jan. 2018
• For deer, the disease, which is in a family of diseases that includes mad cow disease, is contagious and always fatal.
  — Dave Orrick, Twin Cities, 29 Oct. 2019
• The Asian country only restarted purchases of American beef last year, lifting a ban in place since 2003 that was triggered by mad cow disease.
  — Bloomberg.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• Sheep have carried scrapie — effectively mad cow disease for sheep — for centuries.
  — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2020
• Hunters and guides support the feeding as a way to keep elk numbers up but others worry the practice encourages the spread of disease similar to mad cow disease in humans.
  — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2020
• Hunters and guides support the feeding as a way to keep elk numbers up, but others worry the practice encourages the spread of disease similar to mad cow disease in humans.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2020
• The disease is related to bovine spongiform encephalitis, or mad cow disease, although CWD has not been shown to be transferable to humans.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2020
• The disease is part of a group called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, the most famous of which is bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease.
  — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2020
• Examples include mad cow disease, scrapie, Kuru, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 9 June 2022
• Experts worry that the progressive, fatal illness could spill-over to humans in a fashion similar to mad cow disease.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 26 Jan. 2024
• The agency did not take any action on Baur’s cattle petition until 2007 — after mad cow disease threatened herds.
  — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2020
• Brazilian beef exports to China had been suspended since June 3 after an atypical case of mad cow disease was reported in the state of Mato Grosso.
  — Washington Post, 13 June 2019
• Army veteran Matt Schermerhorn couldn’t give blood for years because he was stationed in Europe during a deadly mad cow disease scare there.
  — Jonel Aleccia, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2022
• The disease is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, a class of diseases that includes mad cow disease in cattle, scrapie in sheep and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
  — Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2018
• The disease is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, a family that includes scrapie as well as mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob (both of which are fatal to humans).
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Sep. 2017
• Told from multiple points of view, this is a coming-of-age story complete with complex relationships, mythic traditions and even the fear of mad cow disease.
  — Lesley Kennedy, CNN Underscored, 10 Nov. 2020
• These misfolded brain proteinshave been linked to fatal diseases--like mad cow disease in cattle and the deadly variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
  — Smriti Rao, Discover Magazine, 26 Jan. 2010
• The most stunning of the rubber works are those in her later mucca pazza series, Rama’s artistic response to the cultural fervor elicited by reports of mad cow disease.
  — Jane Yong Kim, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2017
• And in 1989, the government banned imports of beef and lamb from regions, including Britain, affected by bovine spongiform encephalopathy, better known as mad cow disease.
  — David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2020
• When farmers in Europe had to put down herds of cattle infected by mad cow disease, their initial answer was to dig trenches, pour gasoline, and set the animal carcasses on fire.
  — Caren Chesler, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2018
• Consider how veterinarians have kept people safe from mad cow disease, a fatal illness that eats away at human brains.
  — Neil C. Olson, Fortune, 5 June 2018
• Instead, it is transmitted by prions — protein particles that have been linked to brain diseases including mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
• In the near future, mad cow disease mutates into mad human disease and causes everyone affected to turn into zombies.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 14 June 2023

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024