Bovine spongiform encephalopathy disease is equal to

Options

A. Kala-azar
B. Encephalitis
C. Cerebral spondylitis
D. Creutzfeldt Jacob disease

Answer

D

Explanation

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) is a fatal brain disease known to exists in beef and other dairy cattle in UK, also Known as mad cow disease. It is believed to be caused by prions. Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD) is a slow degenerative disease among human affecting central nervous system with dysfunction and degeneration of the brain. Some scientists have suggested that a few people in Britain might have contracted CJD by eating ESE-infected beef.