According to Leon Thacker, director of the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at Purdue University, mad cow disease is a popular term given to a disease of cattle known as bovine spongiform ...

Mad and dead cattle continued to pile up ... called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD)—human mad cow. The culprit behind BSE, scrapie, and vCJD was unlike any disease-causing agent ever ...

A case of classical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), 'mad cow' has been confirmed on a farm in Ayrshire, Scotland, with movement restrictions in place on four farms. The case was identified ...

Researchers have identified chronic wasting disease (CWD) prions in raw, cooked, and cured meat from an infected elk in Texas ...

It is now clear that bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as 'mad cow disease', is not merely a UK phenomenon, nor is it merely an economic nuisance. In fact, it may be an impending ...

Defra is looking to reintroduce processed animal protein (PAP) into some livestock feed, which would ensure the UK is on the ...

The cause of mad cow disease or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy [BSE], which has infected more than 2 million cattle causing an epidemic in United Kingdom has caused a controversy due to ...

just like Mad Cow Disease and CJD, but this time it’s affecting deer in the wild. It’s leaving them confused, distressed, walking in circles by the side of the road. And like BSE, it’s fatal.

Brazil’s beef exports to China will be halted starting Thursday after a case of mad cow disease was confirmed in the northern state of Para, the country’s agriculture and livestock ministry ...

Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) have found a method to detect the proteins in the blood that cause the “mad cow disease” in people. Researchers at the ...