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 ...

LONDON -- A new theory proposes that mad cow disease may have come from feeding British cattle meal contaminated with human remains infected with a variation of the disease. The hypothesis, outlined ...

Britain is sending a delegation of food safety officials to France to ensure French beef does not pose a health risk to British consumers. The move comes amid renewed concern in Europe over the spread ...

Two people in Oregon have died from a rare, progressive brain disorder similar to "mad cow disease" that leads to dementia and is %100 fatal. The Hood River County Health Department confirmed the ...

OTTAWA — Canadian officials confirmed a new case of mad cow disease Tuesday, the second such case in two months and the 12th since the disease was first discovered in Canada in 2003. The Canadian Food ...

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 ...

Prion diseases, also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, have been prominently in the news lately. The best known among this group is mad cow disease, but other animals can get other ...

Mad cow disease has been detected in a cow in California, the first time since 2006 that the deadly disease has surfaced in the U.S. What does that mean for those of us who might want to eat a burger, ...

LONDON — A new theory proposes that mad cow disease may have come from feeding British cattle meal contaminated with human remains infected with a variation of the disease. The hypothesis, outlined ...