Estudio del trastorno cerebral conocido como enfermedad de las vacas locas y sus consecuencias en la actividad de los animales

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to carry out a study of the brain disorder known as mad cow disease, through a bibliographic review and to determine the consequences that it entails in the activity of animals, as well as its impact on public health. It is a pathology that has caused a great commotion in the field of production as international trade has been affected, suffering great economic losses and implying an enormous risk to public health by not guaranteeing food safety. It is part of the spongiform encephalopathies that are transmissible, caused by prions that worsen the central nervous system and once the symptomatology appears, it evolves rapidly until it triggers the death of the individual because until now there is no treatment that prevents the progression of this disease, for Therefore, control measures play a very important role. It is associated with the new variant of Creutzfeldt Jacob Disease that is transmitted to humans. This disease until now has not been possible to determine any method of diagnosis of the disease in animals that are alive, but only from the post-mortem discoveries of the nervous tissue. Currently, after effective Surveillance Programs have been established, the prevalence of classic-type disease is certainly low in both animals and people. There are no indications so far that this disease has occurred in our Ecuadorian territory, for this reason it is categorized only as Type A Surveillance.