NEET AIPMT SOLVED PAPER 2000

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                    Bovine spongiform encephalopathy is a bovine disease. To which of the following human diseases it is related?                                                                                                                                                               

    A)                 Kala azar                                                             

    B)                 Encephalitis                       

    C)                 Cerebral spondylitis                                       

    D)                 Creutzfeldt Jacob disease

    Correct Answer: D

    Solution :

                    Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) is a fatal brain disease known to exists in beef and other dairy cattle in UK. Also known as mad cow disease, it is believed to be caused by prions. Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD) is a slow degenerative disease among human affecting central nervous system with dysfunction and degeneration of the brain. Some scientists have suggested that a few people in Britain might have contracted CJD by eating BSE-infected beef.


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