The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has confirmed an atypical case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in an approximately five-year-old or old beef cow at a slaughter plant in South ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Clemson University announced that a cow recently tested positive for atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or Mad Cow Disease after it arrived at a South ...

The Scottish government on Friday confirmed a case of classical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), known as mad cow disease, at a farm in the southwest of the country, the first British case of ...

Finding so-called prions in skin samples may lead to early diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. But the discovery also hints at possible risks from surgery. By Denise Grady Ireland has met American ...

Food safety fears changed the fate of mechanically separated beef in the United States, and the reason ties back to one of the meat industry's biggest scares.

A cow that died recently on a Dutch farm tested positive for mad cow disease, the government of the Netherlands announced Wednesday, in a rare case of the cattle illness that can cause a fatal brain ...

A Shubenacadie, N.S., slaughterhouse/butcher shop and its owner face several charges for what the Canadian Food Inspection ...

Nov. 21 -- FRIDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers may be moving closer to better treatments for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, better known as mad cow disease, and the related condition ...

Health officials in Hood River County, Oregon, are investigating three cases of a rare and fatal brain disease known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. A new study of prion diseases, using a human cerebral ...

Wal-Mart, in turn, has put a four-letter word on the map for good: RFID – Radio Frequency Identification. And the seemingly overwhelming news from the Consumer Electronics show a week ago in Las Vegas ...

News about Mad Cow Disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.