Human Health and Diseases Question 31
31. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, a bovine disease is related to which human disease ?
(a) Cerebral spondylitis
(b) Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease
(c) Encephalitis
(d) Kala-azar
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Answer : b
Hints & Solutions
(b) Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) is a total brain disease known to exist in beef and other dairy cattle in U.K. It is also known as mad cow disease. It is caused by prions. Creutzfeldt- Jacob Disease (CJD) is a slow degenerative disease among human affecting central nervous system with dysfunction and degeneration of the brain. It has been suggested that a few people in Britain might have contracted CJD by eating BSE- infected beef. So both are related. Encephalitis is an acute inflammation of the brain mostly due to viral infection.
