The human form of 'mad cow' disease affects one in a million people. The rare human form of “mad cow” disease has claimed its latest victim in a young Tennessee father. Tony Gibson ...

Mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) can cause a rare but fatal disease in people called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD). But the risk of getting vCJD from eating ...

A woman's human growth hormone treatments in childhood may have sealed her fate decades later, according to a new case report ...

commonly referred to as mad cow disease. It is the seventh case of mad cow disease ever recorded in the United States, and the first in South Carolina, according to a statement released by the U.S ...

Here’s how it works. A rare case of mad cow disease, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), has been detected at a slaughter plant in South Carolina but poses no threat to humans ...

It’s also commonly called mad cow disease. It was difficult to sort out that small animal from the rest of the herd of young cattle, so the USDA killed them all. The government paid the ...

However, they can also stem from other sources, such as fungal infections like ringworm or prion diseases like 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 ...

A cow that died recently on a Dutch farm tested positive for mad cow disease, the government of the Netherlands announced Wednesday, in a rare case of the cattle illness that can cause a fatal ...

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 ...