The word "spongiform" is correct and usable in written English
It is an adjective that refers to something that has a spongy or porous texture. Example: "The spongiform structure of the bread made it perfect for absorbing the savory broth of the stew."
For there is probably a very, very small chance correction, a very, very, very small chance that bony-beef eaters will contract a new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, deriving from bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad-cow disease") and transmitted, maybe, in beef bones.
One is bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease.
FARM ministers from the European Union agreed at an emergency meeting in Brussels on Monday, December 4th, to a set of Europe-wide proposals to help prevent the spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease.
Dr Prusiner, who works at the University of California, San Francisco, has championed the idea that a range of brain disorders including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in man, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or "mad-cow disease") in cattle, and scrapie in sheep are caused by misshapen proteins called prions.
Along with scrapie in sheep and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, it is a member of a class of strange degenerative diseases of the brain known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or TSEs.
CRITICS of America's cattle industry like to claim that its main problem with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad-cow disease) is refusing to admit that it has a problem.
Of course, the cattle fed on bone meal in Britain in the early 1980s, which led to an epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad-cow" disease), did not have the option of refusing.Following that observation, Dr Engel is now particularly excited about how knowledge of the way that animals look after themselves could be used to improve the health of livestock.
The prime minister, also suitably solemn before the National Assembly, replied that he preferred to wait for scientific advice on how to do this safely and without harming France's environment.In other words, the tragedy of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has become a political football in France.
SALVATORE MONACO, a researcher at the University of Verona, and his colleagues, have created a stir this week by reporting, in the latest edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, what they think is a new prion disease in cattle.The best known (indeed, until now the only known) prion disease of cattle is bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or "mad cow" disease.
This admission ended the decade of vacillation and prevarication by ministers and their advisers, that followed the first identification of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle.
THERE was more than a hint of Schadenfreude in Canada at the news last month of a new case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE ("mad cow" disease) in the United States.
