Cattle that can't walk to slaughter on their own are deemed "downer cows" because they may be sick. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said Sunday in a statement that the recall was prompted ...

A case of atypical BSE, commonly known as mad cow disease, has been confirmed on a farm in southern Scotland. Precautionary movement restrictions have been put in place after the single case of ...

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 ...

A talented vet who first discovered Mad Cow Disease has died. Colin Whitaker was working at a farm in High Halden, in Ashford ...

A case of classical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), 'mad cow' has been confirmed on a farm in Ayrshire, Scotland, with movement restrictions in place on four farms. The case was identified ...

Now basic research on prions, the infectious proteinaceous particles that cause mad cow disease and other cases of transmissible ... Millions of tests for the BSE prion have now been sold throughout ...

The diseases include Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or "mad cow disease." They affect the brain, disrupting or destroying neurons in large ...

Alarmed by a rising number of cases of mad cow disease or BSE, France has banned the sale of T-bone steaks and all animal feed made from ground up cattle, so called meat and bonemeal. The EU's ...

just like Mad Cow Disease and CJD, but this time it’s affecting deer in the wild. It’s leaving them confused, distressed, walking in circles by the side of the road. And like BSE, it’s fatal.

Brazil’s beef exports to China will be halted starting Thursday after a case of mad cow disease was confirmed in the northern state of Para, the country’s agriculture and livestock ministry ...