{"id":11,"date":"2021-08-10T10:45:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T10:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2021-12-14T17:08:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T17:08:53","slug":"www-bsereview-org-uk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"What is BSE?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The acronym BSE stands for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and is more commonly known as Mad-Cow Disease or MCD. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">BSE is a fatal neurodegenerative disease found in cattle, which causes the brain and spinal cord to degenerate and become \u2018spongy.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/madcow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1809\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/madcow.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/madcow-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/madcow-770x385.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/madcow-585x293.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/madcow-293x147.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">At a microscopic level, infected brain tissue appears to be pocketed with holes, which gives it the sponge-like appearance from which the name originates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Because BSE has a long incubation period (usually about four years) it can take a long time for the infection to become apparent. All breeds of cattle are equally susceptible to the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The acronym BSE stands for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and is more commonly known as Mad-Cow Disease or MCD. BSE is a fatal neurodegenerative disease found in cattle, which causes the brain and spinal cord to degenerate and become \u2018spongy.\u2019 At a microscopic level, infected brain tissue appears to be pocketed with holes, which gives it the sponge-like appearance from which the name originates. Because BSE has a long incubation period (usually about four years) it can take a long time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1818,"href":"https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/1818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}