Big Number. 232. That’s how many people have died from the variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease linked to mad cow disease, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The majority of these ...

Mad cow disease, or BSE, is a brain-wasting disease that can cause an animal to have trouble standing or walking and cause an animal to lose weight or give less milk, according to the USDA.

A rare case of mad cow disease, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), has been detected at a slaughter plant in South Carolina but poses no threat to humans or other cattle.

Learn all about mad cow disease, TSE, and the prions that cause the disease. Current science articles on symptoms, prevention and more.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is often called the human form of mad cow disease, and presents as rapidly presenting dementia. CJD ...

“Mad cow disease” was first discovered in the United Kingdom, where thousands of cows were affected by an outbreak in the mid-1990s. As concern grew overseas, the U.S. banned imports of ...

2 dead from rare mad cow-like brain disease in Oregon, county health officials say There are about 500 new cases of the disease in humans per year in the US, according to the Creutzfeldt-Jakob ...

U.S. Woman Dies From Mad Cow-Like Brain Disease That Lay Dormant for 50 Years A woman's human growth hormone treatments in childhood may have sealed her fate decades later, according to a new case ...

Mad cow disease is eventually fatal to cows, and it can sometimes be passed along to humans who eat meat from infected cows. In humans, this can lead to the development of variant Creutzfeldt ...

Tests on the 8-year-old cow from a farm in South Holland province established that the dead animal had a naturally occurring form of the disease called atypical BSE, the government said later ...