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A cow with BSE. Infected animals lose the ability to stand. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease (encephalopathy) in cattle that causes a spongy degeneration in the brain and spinal cord. cow with BSE. Infected animals lose the ability to stand. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease (encephalopathy) in cattle that causes a spongy degeneration in the brain and spinal cord.
Caused by a deformed protein known as a prion, the disease attacks and destroys the brain and spinal cord in cattle. 10 Shocking Facts About Mad Cow Disease April 24, 2012. Onset is typically during middle age, which is characteristic of the long incubation periods most prion diseases show.