BARRHEAD, Alberta -- Surrounded by 11,000 head of cattle, flat, frozen rangeland reaching the horizon and two generations of family history, rancher Walter Schmidt takes refuge in numbers. His own 68 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee State Veterinarian Dr. Samantha Beaty, confirms atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) AKA 'Mad Cow Disease' diagnosis, was found in a cow with ties to the state.

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 World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) won’t make any change to Brazil’s status as a “negligible risk” country for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). Also called “mad cow disease,” BSE is ...

A cow that died recently on a Dutch farm tested positive for mad cow disease, the government of the Netherlands announced Wednesday, in a rare case of the cattle illness that can cause a fatal brain ...

Prioritizing profit over public health is nothing new in the United States, Covid-19 notwithstanding. In the late 1980s, an outbreak of mad cow disease (otherwise known as bovine spongiform ...

China and a number of other countries have suspended imports of Brazilian beef after a case of mad cow disease was confirmed last month, sparking concern for the country’s crucial livestock sector as ...

TORONTO — The cow was obviously sick. It was stumbling. It was “still alive,” farmer Marwyn Peaster said. “It was just not getting up anymore.” Still, the animal that started Canada’s “mad cow” ...

Twenty years ago, on Dec. 23, panic descended on Central Washington and the nation’s cattle industry over a single cow. U.S. Department of Agriculture officials announced a Washington state dairy ...