Mad cow disease can be airborne even if you are vegans!

                                      Risky business: People who work in abattoirs, slaughterhouses

                                         and laboratories could face a higher risk of catching BSE

Mad cow disease can be spread by airborne particles, researchers warn.

And they fear that those who work in abattoirs, slaughterhouses and laboratories could be at risk.

Their study shows prions, the infectious agents which cause BSE and its human form, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, can be dangerous if carried through the air.

ONE CAN TAKE BITS OF INFECTED COW BRAIN, THROW THEM AROUND LIKE CONFETTI, AND IF THEY FALL IN YOUR MOUTH, YOU DIE!

In tests, mice who breathed them in developed the brain disease with ‘frightening’ speed and died.

However, prions, a type of protein, can spread on surgical instruments and in blood transfusions. It had been assumed they were not transmitted by air.

Reference: University Hospital Zurich

Beatrice