The state of Florida has stepped up surveillance after confirmation of new cases of a contagious brain disorder in deer similar to mad cow disease.

Both free-ranging and captive animals have previously tested positive in the county, which is surrounded by other ...

Doctors and veterinarians in the north on Tuesday issued a joint call for “preventative and supervisory mechanisms” after a Turkish Cypriot died of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, commonly known as ...

Washington - The Bush administration can prohibit meat packers from testing their animals for mad cow disease, a federal appeals court said Friday. The dispute pits the Agriculture Department, which ...

Meat from a Holstein cow infected with mad cow disease may have been more widely distributed than initially believed, reaching retail markets in eight states and Guam, federal officials said yesterday ...

On Capitol Hill. Republican and Democratic Congressional leaders yesterday accused the Agriculture Department of misleading the public about a central fact in the nation’s first known case of mad cow ...

She had just graduated from college when the frightening symptoms started to surface. The vivacious, easygoing 22-year-old suddenly became inexplicably irritable and short-tempered. Then her memory ...

WASHINGTON — The government is investigating another possible case of mad cow disease, the Agriculture Department said today. Testing indicated the presence of the disease in a cow that died on the ...

A day after the fourth-ever U.S. case of mad cow disease was confirmed in a California dairy cow, officials are characterizing it as an example of effective inspections, but from other reports it ...

Hopefully you've already eaten so this little flashback to the early 2000s doesn't put you off your lunch: The USDA has confirmed a case of mad cow disease in Central California, but in the same ...