LINCOLN, Ill. -- Chester-East Lincoln learning disabilities teacher Connie Albert, 57, died Saturday from a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease that should not be confused with the human form of mad cow ...

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 ...

Brain tissue taken from alleged mad-cow disease victim Ronel Eckard, 35, is to be re-examined in a bid to end speculation about the cause of her death. The re-examination forms part of the ...

March 7 -- In the end they found only one sick cow — only one out of 36 million slaughtered last year. But to many people, even that single case was scary news. It dominated the headlines when the ...

The storied quarter-century history of Mad Cow Theatre, one of Central Florida’s most highly acclaimed theaters in its heyday, came to a quiet close at the end of October with the dissolution of the ...

A cow at a beef processing facility in South Carolina has tested positive for atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or “mad cow disease,” according to The State. The cow, which was around 5 years ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...