1. Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), is a transmissible, slowly progressive, degenerative, and fatal disease affecting the central nervous system of adult cattle. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has tested hundreds of thousands of cattle for BSE.
2. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
3. Only Canada got Mad-cow disease. American Beef is safe.
I am a dairy farmer, so I know these are correct, If they say they are not correct, they are wrong : )