Hood River County in Oregon reported three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare human brain disease very similar to ...

mad cow disease is a popular term given to a disease of cattle known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE. There have been more than 176,000 cases in cattle worldwide since the disease was ...

Three rare, fatal Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease cases were reported in Hood River County, Oregon. Two people have died. There's ...

BERLIN, Germany (CNN) -- Germany's agriculture minister has called for sheep to be tested for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease. "If the scientists recommend it ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A mad cow’s milk may contain prion ... to humans who happen to drink its milk Mad Cow Disease, also known as Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), affects the central nervous system of the ...

As public interest in bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) grows in the United States, strict controls on who is allowed to study it could needlessly slow US research on the disease, contend some ...

It was discovered during routine BSE surveillance of a 12-year old cow in eastern Switzerland registered ... BSE is a fatal brain disease. Unlike classical BSE, which was spread by feeding animal ...

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 ...