Australia's peak body for wool producers is preparing to make a complaint to the financiers of a popular drama series over ...

Many experts noticed early on how BSE bore a close resemblance to a well-known fatal disease in sheep and goats, called scrapie.

Mad Cow Disease: WebMD corrects some of the misconceptions about mad cow disease and its risk to humans. Know more about symptoms, causes, and treatments for the vCJD.

Mad cow disease, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was first discovered in cattle in the UK in 1986. In 1996, BSE made its way into humans for the first time, setting off panic and ...

BSE isn't contagious at all, but it always kills the animals that get it as well as humans too— a rare occurrence— in the form of new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Trying to stop foot-and-mouth ...

Atypical BSE appears to sometimes form spontaneously in cattle that are normally older than 8 years, which makes the disease's emergence in a 5-year-old cow unusual.

A case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as “mad cow disease,” was detected in South Carolina last weekend— marking the first time a cow in the United States has… ...

Atypical BSE, a rare form of the disease, develops naturally and sporadically in affected cattle and is expected to occur at extremely low levels in all cattle populations worldwide, regardless of any ...

U.S. restrictions that have hindered that country’s imports of live Canadian sheep and goats, going back to the start of the BSE crisis in 2003, are set to be scrapped and replaced with rules applying ...

U.S. restrictions that have hindered that country’s imports of live Canadian sheep and goats, going back to the start of the BSE crisis in 2003, are set to be scrapped and replaced with rules applying ...