Across
- 1. hoofed animals, including cows, horses, goats, pigs, and zebras.
- 3. National Animal Identification System in the United States is a system that allows scientists to trace the disease outbreaks in livestock herds.
- 4. In humans the disease is known as a new variant of
- 7. or the time from when the animal is first infected to the time when symptoms first appear).
- 10. are at the forefront of identifying and preventing possible bioterrorist and agroterrorist attacks.
- 11. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), a fatal neurodegenerative disease that causes a spongy type of degeneration in the spinal cord and brain of infected cattle.
Down
- 2. is an infectious disease also caused by a bacterium that can be transferred from horses to humans through direct contact by inhalation, skin abrasions, or contact with nasal or oral surfaces.
- 4. also called cow are the most common domesticated ungulates that are used for food globally.
- 5. For BSE, the incubation period is anywhere from.
- 6. In the United Kingdom, for example, over ____________cattle were killed in an effort to destroy the disease.
- 8. a terrorist attack involving the introduction of toxic or poisonous material to crops or the foods and grains that many livestock eat, leaving the meat from those animals toxic to humans.
- 9. including attacks of terrorism that might involve livestock or the food produced by these animals