| surveillance for creutzfeldt-jakob disease--united states. | creutzfeldt-jakob disease (cjd) in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (bse) in cattle are subacute degenerative diseases of the brain classified as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. bse was first identified in 1986 in the united kingdom (uk), where an epizootic involving > 155,000 cattle appeared to have been greatly amplified by exposure of calves to contaminated rendered cattle carcasses in the form of meat and bone meal nutritional supplements. on march 20, 1996, and expert ... | 1996 | 8769655 |