Mad cow disease has been detected in a cow in California, the first time since 2006 that the deadly disease has surfaced in the U.S. What does that mean for those of us who might want to eat a burger, ...

Recent research led by the University of Alberta challenges the belief that mad cow disease is caused only by misfolded proteins—a discovery that sheds new light on the devastating outbreak in the ...

March 7 -- In the end they found only one sick cow — only one out of 36 million slaughtered last year. But to many people, even that single case was scary news. It dominated the headlines when the ...

Meat from a Holstein cow infected with mad cow disease may have been more widely distributed than initially believed, reaching retail markets in eight states and Guam, federal officials said yesterday ...

Chronic wasting disease and mad cow disease come from a family of fatal diseases and both put in question the future of deer and cattle herds and our relationships to the animals. Here are some ...

WASHINGTON - The first new case of mad-cow disease in the U.S. since 2006 has been discovered in a dairy cow in California, but health authorities said Tuesday the animal never was a threat to the ...

A Montana State University-Billings biochemist Friday demonstrated the difficulty of science in assessing risk and the certainty of its conclusions following a presentation on the causes of ...

Canadian health authorities have but one grisly way to stop mad cow disease: Kill all 150 animals at the Alberta ranch where a single, unsteady old cow was stricken. All because there is no simple ...

MILWAUKEE - Wisconsin has been battling the spread of chronic wasting disease among deer for almost two years, while a cow in Washington was recently discovered as the first in the United States with ...