All school systems except Alamo, Huntingdon, Jackson County, McNairy County, and Polk County submitted salary schedules for the 2014-2015 school year. Those systems that did not submit a salary schedule this year, we posted the most recently received schedule from a previous year.
What Is Mad Cow Disease and Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease? Mad cow disease is an infectious disease caused by prions that affect the brains of cattle. The actual name of the disease is bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), a name that refers to the changes seen in brain tissue of affected cows.
Researchers believe that the infectious agent that causes mad cow disease is an abnormal version of a protein normally found on cell surfaces, called a prion.For reasons still unknown, this protein becomes altered and destroys nervous system tissue -- the brain and spinal cord.t is not linked to eating nerve tissue from mad cow disease-affected cattle -- both vegetarians and meat eaters have died from classic CJD. CJD most commonly affects people over 65 and is usually fatal within six months from onset of symptoms.