Some scientists suspect that those people acquired the disease by eating beef from infected cattle, but the method of infection ... Most scientists believe that BSE is caused by a small agent called a ...

Still, millions of BSE-infected cattle might have entered the ... plenty of funding into deciphering these mysterious agents ...

Most people infected with this prion disease die ... to “waste away” caused by the same level of confusion. BSE, or mad cow ...

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 ...

Cattle infected with mad cow disease give ... and to scrapie if they eat contaminated meat. Just like BSE, the Creuzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans is a type of transmissible spongiform ...

In a new case study, researchers from North Carolina State University found that a family suffering from illnesses that ...

Researchers have identified chronic wasting disease (CWD) prions in raw, cooked, and cured meat from an infected elk in Texas, confirming the presence of the infectious CWD-causing agents in muscle ...

BSE is a prion disease. Prions are a kind of protein found ... Some people argue that an old meat rendering plant infected the water supply There is still no definitive scientific explanation ...

The monitoring of BSE has been an important function since the crisis of 1986 when 180,000 cattle were infected and 4.4 million slaughtered in order to eradicate the disease in the UK. There are ...