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.
Confidence votes 30.3K. Mad cow disease is scientifically known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE for short. BSE is caused by a mis-folded protein in the brain and spinal cord of cattle, so it is actually none of the above (virus, bacteria or protist).Prions are a novel form of disease infection distinct from the traditional three infectious routes identified in the early 1900s.he disease was given â¦ the formal name of bovine spongiform encephalopathy based on the microscopic signs of the disease in the brain and is often called BSE for short. BSE is caused by a prion, a mis-folded protein in the brains of cattle, so it is not caused by a protist.