CJD is rare but fatal. The UK NHS lists possible symptoms including loss of intellect and memory, changes in personality, ...

Scientists have been trying to better understand mad cow disease ever since. People may contract a brain-wasting disease similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and to scrapie if they ...

Soon enough, the ailment had a formal name: bovine spongiform encephalopathy ... better (other widespread measures included ...

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 ...

But there had never been a cow version – until now ... a new addition to a family of fatal transmissible brain diseases. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy – or BSE as we came to know it.

A case of mad cow disease has been confirmed on a farm in Scotland. Atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, has been confirmed in a cow on a farm in ...