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 ...

The farmer of the herd found with BSE in Aberdeenshire has spoken of his devastation. Movement restrictions at Boghead Farm in Lumsden were introduced after so-called mad cow disease was found in ...

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 cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), is a fatal neurological disease in cattle caused by an abnormal protein that destroys the brain and spinal cord. The disease was first ...

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.

But the BSE scare established that an animal’s ... One of the most existentially frightening illnesses ever to be discovered ...

A case of classical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), 'mad cow' has been confirmed on a ... Further investigations to identify the origin of the disease are ongoing, APHA said, adding ...

Darwinian natural selection could help halt human “mad cow disease”, experts ... Kuru, a prion disease similar to CJD in humans and BSE in animals, was transmitted at mortuary feasts where ...

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 ...

Mad cow disease could have come from outer space ... Chandra Wickramasinghe and Sir Fred Hoyle puts the blame for BSE on prions - infected pieces of protein - in the stratosphere from comets ...