According to Leon Thacker, director of the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at Purdue University, mad cow disease is a popular term given to a disease of cattle known as bovine spongiform ...

Now basic research on prions, the infectious proteinaceous particles that cause mad cow disease and other cases of transmissible ... Millions of tests for the BSE prion have now been sold throughout ...

Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), is a fatal neurological disease in cattle caused by an abnormal protein that destroys the brain and spinal cord. The disease was first ...

A case of classical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), 'mad cow' has been confirmed on a farm in Ayrshire, Scotland, with movement restrictions in place on four farms. The case was identified ...

It is now clear that bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as 'mad cow disease', is not merely a UK phenomenon, nor is it merely an economic nuisance. In fact, it may be an impending ...

Alarmed by a rising number of cases of mad cow disease or BSE, France has banned the sale of T-bone steaks and all animal feed made from ground up cattle, so called meat and bonemeal. The EU's ...