These symptoms caused BSE to be known as mad cow disease. Atypical BSE is naturally occurring and non-contagious, however classical BSE is spread via contaminated feed. Humans can get a variant of ...

Doctors say he suffers from a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the human version of mad cow disease. The ailment caused panic across France when it became known last month that potentially ...

The patient was unknowingly infected with an abnormal protein that causes a rare, fatal neurological disease with no ...

Ten deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease during the 2024-25 hunting season, mainly in Triad counties. What ...

Epidemics of infectious disease often come in waves, but the causes of these waves aren't clear, frustrating efforts to ...

If you’ve handled cat litter or eaten raw meat or unwashed produce, there’s a chance you might have a permanent toxoplasmosis ...

Bowls on the top or bottom? Fork handles up or down? Just what is the "right" way to load the dishwasher? It's an age old question.

Researchers have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through lice rather than ticks, and how it gained ...

Federally funded Johns Hopkins team finds the virus ‘reprograms’ neutrophils to impair production of immune cells critical ...

Southern Arizona's costliest fires of 2011 were both human-caused, and both started ... closed due to lack of investigative leads, with the cause of the fire undetermined." In 2011, 86 fires ...