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 Canada, a major exporter ...

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 ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease strikes 1 in 1 million people and kills within months — and there is no cure in sight.

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 ...

In April 2025, three people in Oregon developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare, fatal neurological condition that is similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease ...

A cow at a South Carolina slaughterhouse is the seventh cow in America to have been identified with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, better known at mad cow disease. Scott Sharpe ssharpe@newsobserver ...

Dutch officials have identified a single case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as "mad cow disease", in a cow carcass, the agriculture ministry said Wednesday. The animal, an ...

The incurable “mad cow disease” is called variant CJD (vCJD) and is caused by eating meat from a cow with a very similar ...

The Philippines has banned beef imports from the United Kingdom following detection of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in a cow in Scotland. The action was taken based on a report submitted by ...

A case of BSE - also known as Mad Cow Disease - has been confirmed in a cow on a farm in Dumfries and Galloway. Precautionary movement measures are in place on the animal's offspring and its "cohort", ...