print email comment close World Health Organization Fact Sheets: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy URL: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs113/en/ Description: World Health Organization (WHO) fact sheet on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, or "mad cow disease") which "is a transmissible, neurodegenerative, fatal brain disease of cattle." Provides information about the disease, its cause, its link with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), and WHO recommendations to reduce human exposure to the disease. Publisher: World Health Organization (WHO) Extra Keywords Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) Library of Congress Subject Headings: Bovine spongiform encephalopathy LII Database Information: Record 9246 created by Carol Terry on 01/02/2004 Last modification on 01/08/2004 Last review by Jennifer English on 09/09/2009 Published: 01/02/2004   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/9246