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

Since then, animals from an additional three farms in Hungary and another three in Slovakia have tested positive for the virus, the first outbreak of the disease in either country in more than ...

LEVÉL, Hungary – Authorities in several countries in Central Europe are working to contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among ... the highly transmissible virus two weeks later.

Find out about the impact of Virus Yellows disease on sugar beet, and what NFU Sugar is doing to tackle it. Virus Yellows disease is a complex of three viruses; BMYV (Beet Mild Yellowing Virus), BChV ...

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 ...

Measles is spread through contact with infected nasal or throat secretions, or by breathing in the virus after it's coughed, sneezed or sent into the air by an infected person, according to WHO. The ...

Health officials say a Texas patient is the fourth person in the United States to die of a rare brain disorder that is believed to be caused by consumption of beef products contaminated with mad cow ...

LONDON - Britain's "mad cow" disease epidemic was caused by a scientific experiment that went wrong, some experts believe. The blunder has cost Britain $6.4 billion, claimed the lives of 43 people and ...

A researcher in the Global Irish Studies Initiative at Georgetown University (GIS) explored the early medieval history of animal disease in Ireland at a talk March 27. Singer said that although other ...

In this paper, we advance the case for further work on Nipah virus disease in public health ethics due to the distinct issues it raises concerning communication about the modes of transmission, the ...