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Mad Cow Disease case
February 26 , 2023
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- Brazil has halted its beef exports to China after a case of mad cow disease was confirmed in the northern state of Para.
- The disease is also called Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.
- It is a transmissible, slowly progressive, degenerative, and fatal disease.
- It affects the central nervous system of adult cattle.
- The incurable disease occurs due to an infection in a protein called a prion.
- The outbreak of the disease occurred in the US, China, Egypt, Hong Kong, Chile, UAE, etc.
- Brazil is the largest beef exporter in the world.
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