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

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources has confirmed a hunter-harvested deer has tested positive for chronic wasting disease, the first case in Georgia.

Those proteins then clump up in the brain and cause brain damage. Prion diseases, which include mad cow disease, are always fatal. In deer, the illness can exist for up to two years before symptoms ...

Chronic Wasting Disease, also known as Zombie Deer Disease, affects deer, elk, moose, and reindeer, causing severe neurological symptoms. It has been found in 33 U.S. states and poses a potential risk ...

The pair had helped identify a still-unnamed disease, which they had tied to a particular gene and to a particular somatic mutation—a genetic change that had not been passed down from a parent ...

A case of mad cow disease has been confirmed on a farm in Scotland. Atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, has been confirmed in a cow on a farm in ...

there was an outbreak of mad cow disease in humans in Great Britain, which caused the country to suspend beef consumption for several months. At the time, the disease was transmitted to humans ...

PARIS, Aug 3 (AFP) - Deaths in Britain from a brain disorder blamed on mad-cow disease have been rising by a third each year since the phenomenon was detected, although the overall toll remains low, ...