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 ...

The CDC states that CWD is a prion disease or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Other TSEs include bovine spongiform encephalopathy or “mad cow disease” in cattle and scrapie in sheep ...

It is simiilar to mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. CWD spreads animal to animal as well as through contaminated environments. Once in the soil, CWD prions can ...

30 years on, where did mad cow disease come from and how did humans get infected?

Prion diseases, which include mad cow disease, are always fatal ... Should CWD spread to swine or cattle, it could be dangerous. Researchers don’t yet know exactly what it takes for the prion to ...

but some experts fear it could cause illness similar to another prion disease: bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad cow" disease). The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns against ...

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, and cows are a major source of it. A group of scientists is developing a proof of ...

The newer variant of avian influenza that recently infected dairy cattle in Nevada has a genetic change that’s thought to ...

Dairy cattle in Nevada have been infected with a new type of bird flu that's different from the version that has spread in ...

While the risk to humans of exposure from cows or milk remains low, this new flu spillover from birds into cows raises the need for continued surveillance.

Importing cattle, pigs and sheep into Great Britain from Germany has been banned to prevent the spread of foot and mouth disease ... a farm having to kill and burn all its livestock, with more ...

It affects cattle and can cause fever, nodules on the skin, and death. An employee of the animal husbandry department administrating lumpy skin disease vaccine to a cow in Chandigarh. (HT Photo ...