Background. Sheep with prion protein (PrP) gene polymorphisms QQ171 and RQ171 were shown to be susceptible to the prion causing L-type bovine spongiform encephalopathy (L-BSE), although RQ171 sheep ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has confirmed an atypical case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in an approximately five-year-old or old beef cow at a slaughter plant in South ...

Health officials in Hood River County, Oregon, are investigating three cases of a rare and fatal brain disease known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. A new study of prion diseases, using a human cerebral ...

Finding so-called prions in skin samples may lead to early diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. But the discovery also hints at possible risks from surgery. By Denise Grady Ireland has met American ...

The bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) maternal cohort study supports a role both for direct maternal transmission and for inherited genetic susceptibility to the BSE agent. Additional data from ...

July 18 (UPI) --The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Tuesday announced it discovered an "atypical" case of so-called mad cow disease in a cow in Alabama. The 11-year-old animal showed symptoms of the ...

USDA and Alabama Department of Agriculture officials insist that the discovery of an infected cow does not present a threat to human health and the animal never entered the slaughter facility or the ...

A Shubenacadie, N.S., slaughterhouse/butcher shop and its owner face several charges for what the Canadian Food Inspection ...

The discovery of ‘new variant’ Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) was announced in March 1996. By mid-1997, several lines of evidence linked vCJD with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the most ...