From August 6 to Russia banned beef imports from Romania.

The ban for live cattle, meat, meat-and-bone, blood meal, bone-in beef by-products, processed animal protein, designed to feed productive animals, except obtained from processing of fish and feed consisting of processed animal proteins, with the exception of milk proteins, explains the Rosselkhoznadzor.

Essentially, encephalopathy of cattle - a disease that leads to irreversible changes in the brain of animals and lethal outcome. The incubation period of 30 months and 8 years. The disease is transmitted by eating the meat of sick animals, causes the disease of Creutzfeld-Jakob disease in humans.

The mortality of people from diseases of Creutzfeld-Jakob exceeded 200 people.

For the first time "mad cow disease" was recorded in the UK in 1986.