The government advice was clear: keep calm, and carry on eating cows. So that’s exactly what most people did, for a decade, until 1995. It was then that the first human cases of Mad Cow Disease ...

After an article appeared nationally in April 1997, suggesting that a 62-year-old Schererville, Ind., man died of mad cow disease, cattle options traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange fell the ...

One of the most existentially frightening illnesses ever to be discovered was mad cow disease ... well-known fatal disease in sheep and goats, called scrapie. Mad and dead cattle continued ...

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 cannibal cows ...

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 ...

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 ...