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Mad Cow Disease: What You Need To Know Now

Mad cow disease has been detected in a cow in California, the first time since 2006 that the deadly disease has surfaced in the U.S. What does that mean for those of us who might want to eat a burger, ...
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Mad Cow Disease and vCJD: Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention

Mad Cow Disease and vCJD: Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention: By Anjali Srivastava Mad cow disease, or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), is a fatal brain disorder in cattle caused by ...
Lincoln Journal Star

New theory suggests mad cow disease may have come from humans

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 ...
The Washington Post

Mad Cow Variant That Hits Humans Is a Puzzle

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 ...
Reuters

FACTBOX-What is Mad Cow disease?

March 27 (Reuters) - Czech state veterinarians said on Friday they had found a new case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a six-year-old cow on a farm near the northern border with Poland. ...
New York Sun

Scientists Engineer Cows Immune to Mad-Cow Disease

SAN FRANCISCO — Scientists have genetically engineered a dozen cows to be free from the proteins that cause mad cow disease, a breakthrough that may make the animals immune to the brain-wasting ...
Gizmodo

Prion Disease Is Spreading in Deer. Here’s What We Know About the Risk to Humans

A recent case report has stoked fears that deer can transmit universally fatal prions to humans. Outside experts remain skeptical. Reading time 5 minutes Earlier this year, a team of scientists ...
Times Union

New mad cow disease test shows promise

An experimental test might be the first to screen human and animal blood for proteins that cause mad cow disease and its human form, according to a study of hamsters in the September issue of Nature ...
Reuters

Brazil confirms second case of atypical mad cow disease

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil has confirmed a second case of atypical mad cow disease, a year after several countries banned Brazilian beef imports when a similar case of the disease was confirmed. The ...
Southeast Missourian

Mad cow disease in Canada brings export ban

TORONTO -- The United States banned all beef imports from Canada after a lone case of mad cow disease was discovered in the heart of Canada's cattle country on Tuesday. The discovery raised concern ...
The Washington Post

Japan Says Man Died of Mad Cow Disease

A Feb. 5 article on mad cow disease in Japan incorrectly said that the clinical name of the illness in humans is bovine spongiform encephalopathy. That is the disease in cattle; the human illness is ...