Bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy and fatal neurodegenerative disease in cattle that may be passed to humans who have eaten infected flesh. BSE causes a spongiform degeneration of the brain and spinal cord.
Anthon is a city in Woodbury County in the U.S. state of Iowa. It is part of the Sioux City, IAâNEâSD Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 565 at the 2010 census. Anthon was home to Charles Osborne, who had the hiccups continuously for 68 years, and was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records [1]. It was also home to eunuchoidal giant Bernard Coyne, who was over 8 feet (243 cm) tall.
IAGenWeb Project & Submitters. All rights reserved. Cherokee county, Iowa, lies in the northwestern part of the present State of Iowa. It is within the Missouri River Basin and, in terms of topography and climate, lies in the transition zone between the woodland prairies and the high plains.