disease shares features of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease cattle disease encephalopathy, bovine spongiform https://github.com/monarch-initiative/mondo/issues/5726 encephalitis, bovine spongiform bovine spongiform encephalitis MESH:D016643 Mad cow disease VeNom:80288 MONDO:0025149 Mad cow diseases BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) bovine spongiform encephalopathy A transmissible spongiform encephalopathy of cattle associated with abnormal prion proteins in the brain. Affected animals develop excitability and salivation followed by ataxia. This disorder has been associated with consumption of scrapie infected ruminant derived protein. This condition may be transmitted to humans, where it is referred to as variant or new variant creutzfeldt-jakob syndrome. (Vet Rec 1998 Jul 25;143(41):101-5) BSEs (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) spongiform encephalopathy, bovine prion disease, non-human animal Bos taurus