A CASE of ‘mad cow disease’ has been discovered on a farm in Essex, officials say. The cow showed symptoms of the deadly ...

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that causes a cow's brains to become ‘spongy’ ...

Single case of atypical BSE found in cow in Essex - The case is distinct from classical BSE behind the ‘mad cow disease’ ...

A single case of atypical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) has been confirmed on a farm in Essex - officials have ...

Mad cow disease confirmed on Essex farm - The animal has been humanely culled and there is no risk to public or food safety ...

The Animal and Plant Health Agency said the cow was humanely culled and there was no risk to public health or food safety. | ITV News Anglia ...

BSE, mainly affecting cattle, can be detected through close observation for signs like behavioural changes, incoordination, ...

The deaths of two people and illness of one from a possible fatal and rare brain disease clustering in Oregon have public ...

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (B.S.E.), nicknamed "Mad Cow Disease" was as unanticipated as AIDS, and is arguably as insidious. It arose from centuries of relative obscurity in sheep to sweep ...

It is now clear that bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known ... the infection — the time from ingestion to the onset of symptoms — is unknown, we have no idea how many people ...

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.