Diseases

• Bovine spongiform encephalopathy

 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

 

 

• Swine influenza

   Swine influenza, also called pig influenza, swine flu, hog flu and pig flu, is an infection caused by any one of several types of swine influenza viruses

 

Avian influenza

 Avian influenza — known informally as avian flu or bird flu — refers to "influenza caused by viruses adapted to birds