They call it “mad cow” disease, but its scientific name is bovine spongiform encephalopathy. In elk and deer, it is called wasting disease. And when it is transmitted to humans, it is called ...

A new treatment route for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and its human form Creutzfeldt Jakob disease could be a step closer based on new results from scientists in the UK. The team has ...

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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (B.S.E.), nicknamed "Mad Cow Disease" was as unanticipated as AIDS, and is arguably as insidious. It arose from centuries of relative obscurity in sheep to sweep ...

Clemson Extension credited the latest discovery to the ongoing bovine spongiform encephalopathy surveillance program which allows the USDA to detect the disease even at low levels in the U.S ...

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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 ...

Japan's farm ministry said on Friday that an animal health and quarantine agreement with China had come into force, paving ...