Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is an extremely rare and fatal brain-wasting disease that's like a human version of "mad cow." ...

By mid-1997, several lines of evidence linked vCJD with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the most compelling being that BSE and vCJD produced an identical disease in conventional mice.

According to Leon Thacker, director of the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at Purdue University, mad cow disease is a popular term given to a disease of cattle known as bovine spongiform ...

Newly emergent prion diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD), and chronic wasting disease are a source of critical concern to physicians ...

in response to the epidemic of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), also known as "mad cow disease," which occurred in the United Kingdom during the 1980s. The center studies and tracks the ...

A shipment of beef tongues imported from the US was intercepted at Taiwan’s border after being found to contain a parasite ...

are a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases that include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), scrapie in sheep, and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) in humans. In TSEs the normal cellular prion ...

Other TSEs include bovine spongiform encephalopathy or “mad cow disease” in cattle and scrapie in sheep and goats. They also ask NC residents to avoid placing out food for wildlife ...