A woman's human growth hormone treatments in childhood may have sealed her fate decades later, according to a new case report ...

Airborne prions are also infectious and can induce mad cow disease or Creutzfeldt-Jakob ... to many viruses including influenza and chicken pox. Prof. Adriano Aguzzi's team of scientists at ...

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Mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) can cause a rare but fatal disease in people called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD). But the risk of getting vCJD from eating ...

China and a number of other countries have suspended imports of Brazilian beef after a case of mad cow disease was confirmed last month, sparking concern for the country’s crucial livestock ...

One of the most existentially frightening illnesses ever to be discovered was mad cow disease, a fatal prion-spread illness that appeared in animals in the 1980s and killed over 200 people during ...

A case of mad cow disease has been confirmed on a farm in the UK, officials have revealed. An investigation is underway after a case of the disease, officially known as Bovine Spongiform ...

U.S. Department of Agriculture officials announced a Washington state dairy animal had tested positive for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy — also known as BSE, or Mad Cow Disease. Today ...

It’s also commonly called mad cow disease. It was difficult to sort out that small animal from the rest of the herd of young cattle, so the USDA killed them all. The government paid the ...

Restrictions have been imposed at a farm in Scotland after a case of mad cow disease was detected by officials - but how does the disease affect humans? Mad cow disease, also known as Bovine ...