One of the most existentially frightening illnesses ever to be discovered was mad cow disease, a fatal prion-spread illness that appeared in animals in the 1980s and killed over 200 people during the ...

By Anjali Srivastava: Mad cow disease, or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), is a fatal brain disorder in cattle caused by abnormal proteins called prions. Its human form, variant ...

Health officials confirm the country's fourth-ever case of an infected cow. April 24, 2012— -- The Department of Agriculture today confirmed a case of mad cow disease found in a dairy cow in ...

A rare case of mad cow disease, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), has been detected at a slaughter plant in South Carolina but poses no threat to humans or other cattle. It is only ...

WASHINGTON — While no case of mad cow infection has ever been found in the United States, the Agriculture Department and Food and Drug Administration are looking at new ways to prevent the disease.

Yellowstone National Park confirmed its first case of chronic wasting disease on Tuesday, the latest case of the relentless and fatal infection in the same family as mad cow disease that poses an ...

A single Holstein on a Washington state farm has tested positive for mad cow disease, marking the disease's first suspected appearance in the United States, the Bush administration announced Tuesday ...

NPR's Joe Palca reports on what scientists expect to see over the next few months in Europe's Mad Cow Disease outbreak. Scientists in the U.S. say the rash of infections may just be the tail of the ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. A few days after the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) announcement last month that it had discovered a ...

A cow at a South Carolina beef processing facility recently tested positive for atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly referred to as mad cow disease. It is the seventh case of mad cow ...