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 ...

It is now clear that bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known ... currently do not show symptoms are actually harboring the brain-destroying infectious prions. It used to be that prion ...

Authors said that finding may point to "a possible novel animal-to-human transmission of ... infected with mad cow disease, ...

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 ...

Two deer hunters died from a rare brain disease after they ate ... a rare infection that affects one in 1 million people.

VCJD progressively attacks the brain, but can remain dormant ... Contaminated beef from cows infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy was the source of human vCJD Prof Knight said: "One ...

A single case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE ... said there was no risk to human health. There are two types of BSE - classical and atypical. Classical can transfer to humans who ...

There was a human one too that happened spontaneously ... new addition to a family of fatal transmissible brain diseases. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy – or BSE as we came to know it.

The Scottish government have confirmed a single case of atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE ... health and the animal has not entered the human food chain, according to the Scottish ...