The Hood River County Health Department confirmed April 14 that two people have died from a mad cow-like illness called ...

Or it can simply occur sporadically for no clear reason. What Ever Happened to Mad Cow? Most CJD cases fall in the last bucket. But over thirty years ago, there was an outbreak of CJD caused by ...

News of the first known case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or “mad cow disease”) in the United States on December 23 shook the country's beef industry. But if ranchers were caught unaware, ...

Three cases of a rare and fatal brain disorder have been identified in Hood River County, Oregon, local health officials have confirmed. The disease is related to mad cow disease and can lead to ...

"At this time, there is no identifiable link between these three cases," the health department added. The mad cow-like disease reported in Oregon is called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), named ...

Two people in Oregon have died from a rare, progressive brain disorder similar to "mad cow disease" that leads to dementia and is %100 fatal. The Hood River County Health Department confirmed the ...