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.

They are called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) when there is evidence of animal-to-human or human-to-human transmission. The definition stems from the characteristic aspect and ...

Dutch officials have identified a single case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy ... to be significantly more susceptible to digital dermatitis, an extremely painful disease that is widespread ...