A case of atypical BSE, commonly known as mad cow disease, has been confirmed on a farm in southern Scotland. Precautionary movement restrictions have been put in place after the single case of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now basic research on prions, the infectious proteinaceous particles that cause mad cow disease and other cases of transmissible ... Millions of tests for the BSE prion have now been sold throughout ...

Alarmed by a rising number of cases of mad cow disease or BSE, France has banned the sale of T-bone steaks and all animal feed made from ground up cattle, so called meat and bonemeal. The EU's ...

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 ...

The Hanwoo Association, a nonprofit overseeing Korea’s beef industry, has strongly opposed lifting the 2008 ban on imports of ...

The diseases include Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or "mad cow disease." They affect the brain, disrupting or destroying neurons in large ...

The NHS has begun using blood plasma donated by Brits for the first time in 27 years, after a ban introduced during the mad ...

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.