Discussion
Eating meat from cattle with bovine spongiform encephalitis can cause a variant of ................. in humans.
Answer: C
It can cause a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (printed 'encephalitis'), 'mad cow disease', is a prion disease of cattle. Eating beef products contaminated with the BSE prion led, from the mid-1990s in Britain, to variant CJD (vCJD), a fatal neurodegenerative disease of younger people, distinct from classic sporadic CJD.
Kuru was spread by ritual cannibalism in Papua New Guinea, and fatal familial insomnia (printed 'familiar') and Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome are inherited prion diseases. None is linked to eating BSE-infected meat.
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