The Patch is created in the gyre of the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone. The Great Pacific garbage patch was predicted in a 1988 paper published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the United States. The prediction was based on results obtained by several Alaska-based researchers between 1985 and 1988 that measured neustonic plastic in the North Pacific Ocean.
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), or Mad Cow Disease. BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) is a progressive neurological disorder of cattle that results from infection by an unusual transmissible agent called a prion. The nature of the transmissible agent is not well understood. Currently, the most accepted theory is that the agent is a modified form of a normal protein known as prion protein.
Alzheimerâs disease is also thought to be a result of the accumulation of Amyloids within the brain. Prions, however, are not the cause in Alzheimerâs case. Mad Cow disease is only one of numerous diseases throughout the animal kingdom that cause this same problem. There is Scrapie, affecting sheep and goats.