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 ...

ROME (Reuters) - The Italian Health Ministry reported on Friday a "likely" case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the human form of mad cow disease. Since national records were established in 1993, Italy ...

The deadly lowing of “mad cow” disease resounded anew last week, causing fearful Europeans to question the ability and willingness of health authorities to prevent meat from cattle infected with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ATLANTA, March 27 -- The number of British cases of the rare and fatal human equivalent of "mad cow disease" is doubling every three years, even though measures to protect meat, the presumed source of ...

The Scottish government on Friday confirmed a case of classical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), known as mad cow disease, at a farm in the southwest of the country, the first British case of ...

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.

WASHINGTON -- Two cases of mad cow disease in Texas and Alabama seem to have resulted from a mysterious strain that could appear spontaneously in cattle, researchers say. Government officials are ...