Although no cases of mad cow disease have been found in humans or livestock in the United States, according to a Purdue expert, recent news articles have suggested that individuals have died from the ...

Darwinian natural selection could help halt human “mad cow disease”, experts say after finding a tribe impervious to a related fatal brain disorder. The Papua New Guinea tribe developed strong ...

The Canadian province of New Brunswick has been plagued by a mysterious brain disease for more than a decade, and residents are still looking for answers. The disease has caused 40 deaths since it ...

The first case of an extremely rare mad cow-like disease, which affects the nervous system and usually is fatal has been reported in Kenya. The case of Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD ...