Dr Ricardo Persaud FRCS (ORL-HNS), CCT (Otol) (UK), Consultant ENT Surgeon and Head of Department, NMC Royal Hospital Sharjah, Adjunct Clinical Professor, University of Sharjah, UAE.
Tested single use surgical instruments to break the potential chain of transmission between humans.
The disease affected cattle across the globe during the 80s and 90s.
This moment in history had far reaching implications with millions of cattle being culled in order to rid the world of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as Mad Cow Disease.