fēng
niú
bìng

technical

Meaning of 疯牛病

疯牛病 means bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE); mad cow disease. Pronounced fēng niú bìng.

  • bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE); mad cow disease

Definitions & Examples

Shàng
shì
909
nián0
dài
fēng
 
niú
bìng
zài
Ōu
zhōu
bào
zào
 
chéng
le
yán
zhòng
de
nóng
wēi
 
 

In the 1990s, mad cow disease broke out in Europe, causing a serious agricultural crisis.

Wèi
fáng
zhǐ
fēng
niú
bìng
chuán
 
guó
yán
jìn
zhǐ
yòng
fǎn
chú
dòng
dàn
bái
wèi
yǎng
niú
zhī
 

To prevent the spread of BSE, countries strictly prohibit feeding ruminant protein to cattle.

Shí
yòng
gǎn
rǎn
fēng
niú
bìng
de
niú
ròu
néng
shǐ使
rén
huàn
shàng
biàn
xìng
shì
bìng
 

Eating beef infected with mad cow disease may cause humans to develop variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Zhè
zhǒng
bìng
niú
de
diǎn
xíng
zhèng
zhuàng
shì
shén
jīng
zhì
 
tài
wěn
xiāo
shòu
 

The typical symptoms of a cow with this disease are nervousness, unsteady gait, and extreme emaciation.

Fēng
niú
bìng
de
bìng
yuán
shì
zhǒng
yǒu
cháng
gòu
xiàng
de
dàn
bái
zhì
 
chēng
wéi
ruǎn
bìng
 

The pathogen of mad cow disease is a protein with an abnormal conformation, called a prion.

Measure Words

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