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 ...

Although no cases of mad cow disease have been found in humans or livestock in the United States, according to a Purdue expert, recent news articles have suggested that individuals have died from the ...

30 years on, scientists and activists are still searching for answers to two big questions - where did mad cow disease originally come from and how did humans get infected? This crazy tale of ...

Darwinian natural selection could help halt human “mad cow disease”, experts say after finding a tribe impervious to a related fatal brain disorder. The Papua New Guinea tribe developed strong ...

They still didn’t know how the disease had started but the Feed Ban did halt the spread of Mad Cow Disease, proving one thing: cow cannibalism had spread the madness. 4. It took a decade for the ...

O ne of the most existentially frightening illnesses ever to be discovered was mad cow disease, a fatal prion-spread illness ...

Caused by a prion, a protein molecule without a genetic code, mad cow disease is a degenerative disease also called bovine spongiform encephalitis. The modified proteins consume the animal's brain ...