Easy replication in cattle mammary glands means H5N1 bird flu is under no evolutionary pressure to adapt to spread easily in humans.

H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...

The newly identified deer, a 4.5-year-old white-tailed buck, was harvested by a landowner helping the DNR with ongoing ...

Three people in Hood River County have contacted Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease over the span of eight months, an unusual pattern ...

The virus is mainly spread by biting midges and possibly some ... CWD is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy—the same ...

The human form of Mad Cow disease, more formally known as new variant Creutzfeld ... A few scientists still resist the idea of prions as pathogens, and are looking for a "slow virus" causing TSEs, of ...

LEGAL ACTIONS FILED TO FORCE FDA, CDC, TO COMBAT 'MAD COW' TYPE DISEASES IN PEOPLE, WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK IN THE UNITED STATES. TERMINALLY ILL UTAH HUNTER, AGE 30, COULD BE THE FIRST VICTIM OF U.S.

open image in gallery Hantavirus is a virus that spreads through the urine, droppings, or saliva of wild rodents, including deer mice, and can cause serious disease in humans (California ...

Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock says Congress must curb Trump’s tariff power: “We just need enough Republicans to stand with us and take the steering wheel away from the mad man who's got us in a ...

George R. R. Martin posted about visiting Ben Lamm, George Church, Beth Shapiro, ‘and the rest of their team of mad scientists’ in February. Writing on his blog yesterday, he described ...

Once again mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy [BSE]) has surfaced in the U.S. This week the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed BSE in a California dairy cow. USDA ...