United Kingdom BSE outbreak
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united-kingdom-bse-outbreak-161-10412432
title:
United Kingdom BSE outbreak
text:
The United Kingdom was afflicted with an outbreak of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and its human equivalent variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD), in the 1980s and 1990s. Over four million head of cattle were slaughtered in an effort to contain the outbreak, and 178 people died after contracting vCJD through eating infected beef. A political and public health crisis resulted, and British beef was banned from export to numerous countries around the world, with some bans remaining in place
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description:
Mad cow disease outbreak in the 1980s and 90s
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_BSE_outbreak
date created:
2019-07-12T13:53:29Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T05:18:26Z
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