Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that causes a cow's brains to become ‘spongy’ ...

The human form of 'mad cow' disease affects ... Eating contaminated meat from cattle that have mad cow disease can cause variant CJD (vCJD), though it's very rare. In 1993, an outbreak of BSE ...

A CASE of ‘mad cow disease’ has been discovered on a farm in Essex, officials say. The cow showed symptoms of the deadly ...

19-year-old UK resident Stephen Churchill became the first known case and later fatality of what eventually became called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD)—human mad cow. The culprit ...

a prion-based affliction similar to mad cow disease, causes infected animals to waste away, lose coordination, and display eerie, zombie-like symptoms. But could this deadly disease one day make the ...

The deaths of two people and illness of one from a possible fatal and rare brain disease clustering in Oregon have public ...

Prion diseases are a group of different conditions that affect your brain and nervous system. They can cause severe dementia ... so more healthy cells die. When mad cow disease broke out in ...