Government scientists have shown that it is possible to infect cattle with a BSE-like disease through injecting scrapie-infected material from sheep. This may bring scientists closer to identifying ...

The UK’s Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has said the Progress Report on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (published this week) for 2004 shows that the number ...

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BSE - so-called Mad Cow Disease - has been confirmed on a farm in Scotland for the first time in 10 years. Officials say it did not enter the food chain and there is no risk to human health. An ...

A case of BSE has been identified on a farm in Aberdeenshire, officials have said. Restrictions have been put in place at the unnamed farm as an investigation is carried out into the source of the ...

The Philippines has temporarily banned beef exports from the United Kingdom because of a case of classical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), also known as mad cow disease. The Department of ...

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More cows will be destroyed at the Aberdeenshire farm where a case of BSE has been found, but Scotland's chief veterinary officer has insisted there is "no need to panic". The case of so-called Mad ...

The first attempt to estimate the human health risk from possible BSE infection of the British sheep flock is published today by researchers from Imperial College, London. They show that while the ...

British abattoirs that cull the cattle most at risk from bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) could be spreading the disease to meat sold for human consumption, a report from the Royal Society and ...

Government failures may have exacerbated the British mad cow disease epidemic but it could not have been avoided, believes the chairman of the BSE inquiry, whose report was published on Thursday. The ...