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by Athrael on April 7th, 2008
They don't get mad cow from eating bones - they get mad cow by eating cattle tissues (much is recycled) that is infected with the virus that causes mad cow.
Humans do and sadly have picked up the virus that causes mad cow by eating tissues (meat, bone, etc) of infected cattle.
This is why there is a very large push away from using recycled tissues in cattle feed.
There is no 'mad people' disease as such, however there is a chance that mad cow could mutate into a strain which can be passed from person to person if humans continue to get infected. Similar to how Avian flu (AKA bird flu) is a concern not when it passed between birds to humans, but that there is a higher possibility that it can mutate into a human to human virus.
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Do you like bologna?
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What tastes simuler to the German sausage Weiner schnitzel?
by 69panda69 on May 31st, 2011
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You're reading Did you notice that bologna seems to have more ground up bones than it used to? If cows get mad cow disease from eating their bones, maybe we will get mad people disease from eating their bones.
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