Mad Cow Disease: WebMD corrects some of the misconceptions about mad cow disease and its risk to humans. Know more about symptoms, causes, and treatments for the vCJD.

Mad Cow executive director Mitzi Maxwell, looks out after the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Mad Cow Theatre's new home on Church Street in downtown Orlando, on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012.

It is now clear that bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as 'mad cow disease', is not merely a UK phenomenon, nor is it merely an economic nuisance. In fact, it may be an impending ...

Mad cow disease has no treatment, is invariably fatal and eating meat from a cow that had the disease can trigger a similarly dangerous disease in humans. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip.

A CASE of ‘mad cow disease’ has been discovered on a farm in Essex, officials say. The cow showed symptoms of the deadly disease – formally known as Bovine spongiform encephalopat… ...

Two decades ago, a dairy cow in Mabton, Washington, was diagnosed with the first known case of mad cow disease in U.S. history. The Madrigal family is still feeling the effects. June 25, 2025 ...

Mad cow disease, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was first discovered in cattle in the UK in 1986. In 1996, BSE made its way into humans for the first time, setting off panic and ...

Experts say the disease, which sits in the same family as mad cow disease and slowly destroys the brains of infected animals, is all but impossible to eradicate once established in an area.

You don’t hear much about mad cow today, but the threat still looms. Here’s what happened to this nightmare germ. In 1986, farmers in the UK began to report strange behavior among some of ...

What is mad cow disease (BSE)? Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, is a neurodegenerative disease of cattle. It’s caused by misfolded proteins known as prion and ...

According to the news agency Reuters, a case of mad cow disease has been identified in Brazil's state of Para, which is located in the north. "The symptomatology implies that it is the atypical ...

In December last year, a case of mad cow disease was confirmed on a farm in Scotland. It follows the crisis of 1986 when 180,000 cattle were infected and 4.4 million slaughtered in order to ...