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 ...

Although no cases of mad cow disease have been found in humans or livestock in the United States, according to a Purdue expert, recent news articles have suggested that individuals have died from the ...

The threat of so-called “mad cow disease” has all but faded from the collective memory, after its appearance in U.K. cattle ...

Nov. 17, 2022 — The brains of people with Down syndrome develop the same neurodegenerative tangles and plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease and frequently demonstrate signs of the ...

When the government veterinary scientists ran tests on a cow head Colin sent them, they confirmed his fears: the sickness was a new addition to a family of fatal transmissible brain diseases.

In the 1990s Britain was hit by an epidemic of a fatal neurological disease in cows that also killed 178 humans. Science was split between government assurances of safety and dissidents warning of ...

A case of BSE, commonly known as mad cow disease, has been identified on a farm in Ayrshire. The Scottish government said precautionary movement restrictions had been put in place at the farm and ...

A new leader of the Canadian province has vowed to investigate the mysterious killer disease, which is said to be similar to ...