BARRHEAD, Alberta -- Surrounded by 11,000 head of cattle, flat, frozen rangeland reaching the horizon and two generations of family history, rancher Walter Schmidt takes refuge in numbers. His own 68 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee State Veterinarian Dr. Samantha Beaty, confirms atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) AKA 'Mad Cow Disease' diagnosis, was found in a cow with ties to the state.

"The incidence of BSE in the Canadian cattle herd remains extremely low and continues to decline due to intervention measures such as the ruminant-to-ruminant feed ban." According to Eby, last year ...

Here's a look at Mad Cow Disease, a fatal brain disease found in cattle. Facts: It has been linked to a fatal brain disease in humans called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). Other WRAL Top ...

A rare case of mad cow disease, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), has been detected at a slaughter plant in South Carolina but poses no threat to humans or other cattle. It is only ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as “mad cow disease,” was detected in South Carolina last weekend— marking the first time a cow in the United ...

OTTAWA — An Canadian dairy cow that was diagnosed last month with mad cow disease probably contracted the disease from contaminated feed, federal regulators said. The finding by the Canadian Food ...

Sam: As a young kid I became pretty fascinated by the things that could kill me, particularly infectious diseases. Don’t ask me why, I just was. And the first one I remember becoming obsessed with was ...

Twenty years ago, on Dec. 23, panic descended on Central Washington and the nation’s cattle industry over a single cow. U.S. Department of Agriculture officials announced a Washington state dairy ...