Sir Kenneth Calman, who has died aged 83, was appointed Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for Scotland in 1989 before serving as ...

Mad cow disease is the common name for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE. The first U.S. case of BSE appeared in December 2003 and involved a Canadian-born cow in Washington state.

U.S. agriculture secretary credits Trump as Australia announces easing of restrictions on U.S. beef imports. But will Aussie ...

March 24, 2016 – France confirms the first case of BSE since 2011. October 18, 2018 – Scotland confirms an “isolated case” of mad cow disease has been discovered on a farm in Aberdeen.

In the late 1980 s, an outbreak of mad cow disease (otherwise known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE) spread rapidly among cattle in the U.K., and the incurable, brain-wasting disease ...

A case of atypical BSE, commonly known as mad cow disease, has been confirmed on a farm in southern Scotland. Precautionary movement restrictions have been put in place after the single case of ...

Mad cow disease has been found in a goat, the first time the brain-wasting affliction that ravaged European cattle herds and killed at least 100 people has been diagnosed in another animal, the EU ...

The disease comes from ingesting meat infected with BSE, which is often called mad cow disease. Brown says the woman must have contracted it after eating meat as a young girl in Britain. (4:00 ...

Some articles leaned more heavily toward either anxiety or insouciance. The most forceful example of the former was a column by Mother Jones ’s Tom Philpott, which ran under the headline, “Why You ...

Tests on the 8-year-old cow from a farm in South Holland province established that the dead animal had a naturally occurring form of the disease called atypical BSE, the government said later ...

Some of the meat from the diseased dairy cow slaughtered Dec. 9 in Moses Lake may have been shipped to Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana and Guam. Earlier, officials said most of a 10,000-pound batch ...

March 24, 2016 – France confirms the first case of BSE since 2011. October 18, 2018 – Scotland confirms an “isolated case” of mad cow disease has been discovered on a farm in Aberdeen.