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2008 US beef protest in South Korea
The 2008 US beef protest in South Korea was a series of protest demonstrations between 24 May 2008 and about 18 July 2008 in Seoul, Korea. At its height, the protest involved tens of thousands of people. The protest began after the South Korean government reversed a ban on US beef imports. The ban had been in place since December 2003, when the prion responsible for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or 'mad cow disease' was detected in US beef cattle. The protests occurred on a background of talks concerning the US-Korea free trade agreement. Unrest was fanned by local media reports such as the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) ''PD Notebook'' program, "Is American Beef Really Safe from Mad Cow Disease?" televised on 27 April 2008.
== Background ==
Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare degenerative and fatal neurological disease in humans caused by prion organisms. Prions are usually transmitted by consuming flesh (especially neurological tissue and offal) of infected animals. Similarly, BSE can be transmitted to cattle who are fed animal meal (the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned this practice in 1997).〔(Did BSE announcements reduce beef purchases? ) US department of agriculture, economic research service. Access 11 June 2012.〕 The prion that causes BSE can be transmitted to humans, where it can cause a type of CJD called ''new variant CJD (vCJD)''. No vCJD cases have been linked to the rare cases of BSE detected in US beef cattle.〔(Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, fact sheet ), World Health Organisation (WHO). 22 February 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2012.〕
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