Scientists have developed two simple tests that could offer the first non-invasive ways to diagnose the human version of "mad cow" disease. The tests -- one using a urine sample, the other nasal ...

She had just graduated from college when the frightening symptoms started to surface. The vivacious, easygoing 22-year-old suddenly became inexplicably irritable and short-tempered. Then her memory ...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A third person has died in the Netherlands from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the human form of mad cow disease, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment ...

WASHINGTON - Italian scientists have found a second form of mad cow disease that more closely resembles the human Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease than the usual cow form of the illness. The brain-wasting ...

LONDON 19 July (Science Analysed) The number of British cases of variant Creutzveld–Jakob Disease (vCJD) — the human form of mad cow disease — "now indicates a statistically significant rising trend ...

Health Minister Mary Harney sent a message of sympathy to the victim, a man in his early 20s, after The Irish Times reported his positive diagnosis for variant Crutzfeld-Jakob Disease or vCJD, a fatal ...

A disease that impacts one in one million people has changed the life of a Middle Tennessee family forever. WTVF reports that one year ago, doctors at Vanderbilt University Medical Center diagnosed a ...

ROME (Reuters) - The Italian Health Ministry reported on Friday a "likely" case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the human form of mad cow disease. Since national records were established in 1993, Italy ...

Switzerland has banned on imports of breeding cattle while it waits for measures to safeguard against mad cow disease, agriculture officials have said. Spokesman Rudolf Michlig said imports would be ...

Fear over mad cow disease swelled across Europe on Friday, with France banning sweetbreads and the Swiss Red Cross limiting blood donations from people who spent time in Britain, where the beef scare ...

A cow at a beef processing facility in South Carolina has tested positive for atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or “mad cow disease,” according to The State. The cow, which was around 5 years ...