Health officials say a patient in Texas has died of a rare brain disorder believed to be caused by consumption of beef products contaminated with mad cow disease. It is only the fourth known case ...

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

The human form of 'mad cow' disease affects one in a million people ... inherited genetic mutations can cause a small proportion of patients — 5 to 15 percent — to develop the disease.

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Most countries wanted to develop surveillance programs to know whether or not people were being affected by mad cow disease. It's funded by the CDC and we're funded to do neuropathologic surveillance.

BOSTON - Public health officials in Massachusetts are investigating whether a patient in a Cape Cod hospital has the human form of mad cow disease. Dr. Alfred DeMaria, the state's director of ...

A cluster of residents in New Brunswick have developed an array of symptoms similar to those caused by Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as mad cow disease. The disease that ...

"The patient’s history ... and variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (vCJD), which is a form of mad cow disease, are prion diseases found in people. Mad cow disease is an example of a prion ...

which were similar to those presented in patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a rare fatal ...

“Donors who were previously deferred for mad cow disease risk can now give blood ... NATO military on and off the battlefield as well as patients in U.S. military hospitals around the world ...