It has been almost 20 years since Sergio Madrigal and his wife, Rosa, had nearly 450 calves outside of Sunnyside. They all had to be killed. The U.S. Department of Agriculture took them away for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

TOKYO, Japan -- Japanese officials say they have found the country's first known case of mad cow disease. Japan's agriculture ministry said on Monday a cow has tested positive for mad cow disease in ...

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 Ireland has met American ...

Three people in Hood River County have contacted Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease over the span of eight months, an unusual pattern for an incredibly rare disease. reading time 3 minutes A small Oregon ...

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 ...

News about Mad Cow Disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.