Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy In Our Blood Supply

Happiness of blood supply has always been an important part of human survival. It is well known that existing blood supply is not enough to increase the use of blood and blood products. Ironically, as the topic of blood donation appears in society, people often show suspicions about health and health fears and the donor's blood. For example, there are many criticisms that allow foreign visitors to give Britain the opportunity to donate blood. This criticism arises from the idea that the epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the UK (BSE or "mad cow disease") may be physiologically related to human deadly Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease .

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as "mad cow disease", is a member of a family of prion diseases or infectious spongiform encephalopathies. After the first mad cow disease in Britain occurred in 1987, it was found that mad cow disease and a new human disease (variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease) and animals (cat spongiform encephalopathy, extrinsic ungulatory encephalopathy, Spirit) Spongiform encephalopathy of longevity animals Prions are unique infectious agents that bring physicians unique challenges. This discussion will focus on the nature of prion, the factors that cause the epidemic of mad cow disease, the influence on the treatment of suspected CJD patients, and the efforts to limit drug diffusion.

CWD is a contagious spongiform encephalopathy and belongs to the same type of disease as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE - commonly referred to as "mad cow disease"). These diseases are caused by prion, which is an infectious protein. These diseases affect the brain and spinal cord, causing symptoms such as weakness, discordance, abnormal behavior. It is not fully understood how CWD is transmitted from animals to animals, but it is transmitted by direct contact between animals and animals, or when eating animal contaminated with saliva or stool of infected animals It is thought. It shows the path from Moose to Moose.

The term BSE is short but it represents bovine spongiform encephalopathy with a long name. "Cattle" means that the disease affects the cow, "sponge" means that the brain of the diseased cow looks like a sponge under the microscope, "encephalopathy" is a disease of the brain It means there is. Mad cow disease is often called "mad cow disease." Most scientists believe that mad cow disease is caused by a protein called a prion protein. Normal prion proteins become harmful abnormal prion proteins for reasons that are not well understood. The sick cow's body does not even know that there is an abnormal prion. I do not know where it is, the bull's body can not resist disease.