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 ...
They cause lethal neurodegenerative conditions including CJD, GSS, and kuru in humans and scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy in domestic animals. Remarkably, distinct strains of prions occur ...
The series includes a set of government progress reports. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as Mad Cow Disease, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects cattle. It can be ...