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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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 ...

Mad Cow NPR's Sarah Chayes reports on consumer panic over new cases of Mad Cow disease in France. With French shoppers shunning beef, the government this week banned beef-on-the-bone and the use ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...