Patients may also experience: Involuntary muscle movements Confusion Difficulty walking Mood changes Prion diseases, because they cause spongelike holes in brain tissue, are also called transmissible ...

ISBN 0-19-852581-8. Over the past decade, there has been an increasing number of food alerts—bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), dioxin, Listeria, Salmonella—creating a genuine crisis of ...

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as mad cow disease, is a progressive, fatal disease of the nervous system of cattle. It is a member of a family of diseases known as Transmissible ...