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

According to Leon Thacker, director of the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at Purdue University, mad cow disease is a popular term given to a disease of cattle known as bovine spongiform ...

Concerns about disease transmission, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), lead to strict regulations on its ...

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 ...

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

Several European countries also have established surveillance centers to monitor the occurrence of prion diseases or spongiform encephalopathies, in response to the epidemic of Bovine Spongiform ...

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 ...