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 ... of the different prion conformations, and how they are propagated will be key. Immediate goals should be to prevent transmission from ...

Other mammals can develop prion disease. Infamously, in the 1980s and 1990s, an outbreak of one such illness—bovine ...

It is the original example of a group of diseases, known as the "transmissible ... "prion" diseases. The diseases include Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and bovine spongiform ...

Aside from CWD, prion diseases among animals include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as “mad cow disease”; ...

Scientists express concern over the possibility of the deadly and incurable 'zombie deer' disease affecting humans. The ...

The Scottish government have confirmed a single case of atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE ... a precaution around the farm and on other animals which have been in close proximity.

the sickness was a new addition to a family of fatal transmissible brain diseases. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy – or BSE as we came to know it. BSE is a prion disease. Prions are a kind of ...

This is different from variant CJD, the version linked to eating beef infected by bovine spongiform encephalopathy ... of the Medical Research Council Prion Unit at University College London ...

Caused by a prion, a protein molecule ... The ingestion of meat and animal by-products contaminated with the prions causes transmissible spongiform encephalopathy in humans. In the late 1990s ...

A single case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE ... had been put in place at the site and they covered other animals which had been in contact with the cow. Further investigations ...