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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mad cow disease is a brain disorder in cattle that is transmissible to humans who eat infected meat. ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images Scotland’s government said on Thursday that it has detected a case of ...

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 ...