By mid-1997, several lines of evidence linked vCJD with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the most compelling being that BSE and vCJD produced an identical disease in conventional mice.

Newly emergent prion diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD), and chronic wasting disease are a source of critical concern to physicians ...

Cattle producers on Prince Edward Island can now take advantage of incentives from a new provincial program to expand their ...

There has been no scientific confirmation of that claim. According to Leon Thacker, director of the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at Purdue University, mad cow disease is a popular term given ...

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy – or BSE as we came to know it. BSE is a prion disease. Prions are a kind of protein found all over the body but especially in the brain and nervous system.

A shipment of beef tongues imported from the US was intercepted at Taiwan’s border after being found to contain a parasite ...

The Agricultural Products Marketing Council, which oversees agricultural marketing boards and commissions, now features an ...

The CDC states that CWD is a prion disease or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Other TSEs include bovine spongiform encephalopathy or “mad cow disease” in cattle and scrapie in sheep ...