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 ...

Infamously, in the 1980s and 1990s, an outbreak of one such illness—bovine spongiform encephalopathy ... the blue for no ...

Soon enough, the ailment had a formal name: bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE. Many experts noticed early on how BSE ...

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

Other TSEs include bovine spongiform encephalopathy or “mad cow disease” in cattle and scrapie in sheep and goats. They also ask NC residents to avoid placing out food for wildlife ...