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=== On public health ===

Cattle health is at once a veterinary issue (for animal welfare and productivity), a [[public health]] issue (to limit the spread of disease), and a [[food safety]] issue (to ensure meat and dairy products are safe to eat). These concerns are reflected in farming regulations.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cattle Disease Guide |url=http://www.thecattlesite.com/diseaseinfo/ |access-date=4 December 2013 |archive-date=28 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131128061325/http://www.thecattlesite.com/diseaseinfo/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> These rules can become political matters, as when it was proposed in the UK in 2011 that milk from [[tuberculosis]]-infected cattle should be allowed to enter the food chain.<ref>{{cite news |last=Harvey |first=Fiona |author-link=Fiona Harvey |date=17 May 2011 |title=Easing of farming regulations could allow milk from TB-infected cattle into food chain |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/may/17/farming-regulation-tb-cattle-milk |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201102312/http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/may/17/farming-regulation-tb-cattle-milk |archive-date=1 February 2014 |access-date=4 December 2013 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> Cattle disease attracted attention in the 1980s and 1990s when [[bovine spongiform encephalopathy]] (mad cow disease) [[United Kingdom BSE outbreak|broke out in the United Kingdom]]. BSE can cross into humans as the deadly [[variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease]]; 178 people in the UK had died from it by 2010.<ref name="Garske 2010">{{cite journal |last1=Garske |first1=Tini |last2=Ghani |first2=Azra C. |date=23 December 2010 |title=Uncertainty in the Tail of the Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Epidemic in the UK |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=5 |issue=12 |pages=e15626 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0015626 |doi-access=free |pmid=21203419 |pmc=3009744 |bibcode=2010PLoSO...515626G }}</ref>