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 ...

Recent research led by the University of Alberta challenges the belief that mad cow disease is caused only by misfolded proteins—a discovery that sheds new light on the devastating outbreak in the ...

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(via SciShow) When variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, AKA mad cow disease, first emerged, researchers noticed a weird trend in exactly who got sick. Mot patients were diagnosed in their twenties, ...

A new case of CJD, or mad cow disease, has prompted scientists in the UK to warn that a new wave of the deadly condition is coming. And many more people could be infected. The new case of CJD affected ...

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 ...

March 7 -- In the end they found only one sick cow — only one out of 36 million slaughtered last year. But to many people, even that single case was scary news. It dominated the headlines when the ...

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