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 ...

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (B.S.E.), nicknamed "Mad Cow Disease" was as unanticipated as AIDS, and is arguably as insidious. It arose from centuries of relative obscurity in sheep to sweep ...

Darwinian natural selection could help halt human “mad cow disease”, experts say after finding a tribe impervious to a related fatal brain disorder. The Papua New Guinea tribe developed strong ...

The first case of an extremely rare mad cow-like disease, which affects the nervous system and usually is fatal has been reported in Kenya. The case of Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD ...