New fears for food: Emerging disease,/ [video recording]
Emerging disease
Produce by Cambridge Educational
- Lawrenceville, NJ : Cambridge Educational, 2000
- 1 digital video disc (DVD) (18min.): color ; 12cm.
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An outbreak of mad cow disease shut down Britain's cattle industry, resulting in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of animals and costing the nation billions of dollars. What is mad cow disease, scientifically known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy? Waht precautions is the USDA taking to reduce the likelihood of occcurrence and stem the spread of these degenerative neuroligical desease among animals and people? This program answer those and other question as it sheds light on this emerging group of food borne disease.