Variant Cruetzfeldt-Jakob disease is rare, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notes that in the few known cases, it's just as fatal to humans as mad cow disease is to cows.

The Purdue Cooperative Extension Service has recently published "Mad Cow Disease: Is It a Threat to the U.S. Food Supply?" a publication that is available on the Internet.

Parts of cows were banned by the pet food industry before they were deemed ... It was in Kent that four of the earliest cases of human Mad Cow Disease emerged, known as “The Kent Cluster”.

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Following a decision by the Food and Drug Administration to end age limits on beef imported from Japan ...

It is now clear that bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as 'mad cow disease', is not merely ... it is transmitted through food consumption, and possibly through blood transfusion ...