Cattle that can't walk to slaughter on their own are deemed "downer cows" because they may be sick. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said Sunday in a statement that the recall was prompted ...

Although no cases of mad cow disease have been found in humans or livestock in the United States, according to a Purdue expert, recent news articles have suggested that individuals have died from the ...

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 ...

died after being diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease The condition kills 100 percent of patients and usually strikes at random READ MORE: US records 7th-ever case of mad cow disease in South ...

The ongoing debate about the nature of the infectious agent that causes B.S.E. offers a case in point. The dominant camp asserts that "Mad Cow Disease" and other transmissible spongiform ...

It is the first case reported since 2011 ... for Animal Health gave Canada a “controlled risk” status after mad cow disease was discovered in 2011 in a Canadian cow.

A case of classical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), 'mad cow' has been confirmed on a ... Further investigations to identify the origin of the disease are ongoing, APHA said, adding ...

It is now clear that bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as 'mad cow disease', is not merely ... with fear of a global pandemic. In this case, the infectious agent could be even ...

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, known as vCJD, began to emerge. Stephen Churchill was the first to ...