This disrupts communication between cells and leads to dementia and symptoms like memory loss ... who ate diseased beef from animals with mad cow disease, clinically known as bovine spongiform ...

Cattle that can't walk to slaughter on their own are deemed "downer cows" because they may be sick. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said Sunday in a statement that the recall was prompted ...

Although no cases of mad cow disease have been found in humans or livestock in the United States, according to a Purdue expert, recent news articles have suggested that individuals have died from the ...

Ohio is continuing to see deer test positive from a fatal neurological disease. It could have implications for the species’ ...

Chronic Wasting Disease, also known as zombie deer disease, is fatal for deer and elk, and has a similar effect on the ...

Chronic Wasting Disease is a prion disease, just like Mad Cow Disease and CJD, but this time it’s affecting deer in the wild. New rules were brought in to prevent cow parts from infected herds ...

It is now clear that bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as 'mad cow disease', is not merely ... contain proteins that can behave like infectious prions. Given the unique ...

Despite its unusual properties, is it like other infectious particles ... Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease), sheep scrapie and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) of humans ...

Jan. 14, 2025 — Researchers have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends lifespan by about 50 percent in a mouse model of the fatal neurodegenerative condition.