The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has confirmed an atypical case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in an approximately five-year-old or old beef cow at a slaughter plant in South ...

Here's a look at Mad Cow Disease, a fatal brain disease found in cattle. Facts: It has been linked to a fatal brain disease in humans called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). Other WRAL Top ...

BARRHEAD, Alberta -- Surrounded by 11,000 head of cattle, flat, frozen rangeland reaching the horizon and two generations of family history, rancher Walter Schmidt takes refuge in numbers. His own 68 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as “mad cow disease,” was detected in South Carolina last weekend— marking the first time a cow in the United ...

The infected cow was on a Dutch farm, and authorities say it didn't enter the food chain. Other animals are now being tested. Reading time 3 minutes A case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy—more ...

All three Holsteins cows in Japan diagnosed with BSE were fed with a milk substitute from the same factory, the Gunma prefecture government revealed on Saturday. The ministry had hoped that because ...

March 27 (Reuters) - Czech state veterinarians said on Friday they had found a new case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a six-year-old cow on a farm near the northern border with Poland. ...

Sweeping new restrictions on slaughterhouse practices to further safeguard American beef -- including an immediate ban on so-called "downer" or sick cows entering the human food supply -- were ...

Twenty years ago, on Dec. 23, panic descended on Central Washington and the nation’s cattle industry over a single cow. U.S. Department of Agriculture officials announced a Washington state dairy ...

China and a number of other countries have suspended imports of Brazilian beef after a case of mad cow disease was confirmed last month, sparking concern for the country’s crucial livestock sector as ...