An experimental test might be the first to screen human and animal blood for proteins that cause mad cow disease and its human form, according to a study of hamsters in the September issue of Nature ...
Washington - The Bush administration can prohibit meat packers from testing their animals for mad cow disease, a federal appeals court said Friday. The dispute pits the Agriculture Department, which ...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Agriculture Department on Wednesday declared a cow suspected of having mad cow disease free of the brain-devouring illness. USDA officials had raised the specter of a third case ...
SUMMIT COUNTY – Visitors and residents apparently are not too concerned about the first and only case of mad cow disease found in the United States last week. Summit County consumers are following the ...
SPOKANE, Wash. - When the nation's first case of mad cow disease was discovered on a Washington farm, it took the slaughter of more than 700 healthy cattle to prove the disease had not spread. That's ...
fic test results, the U.S. Department of Agriculture last week reiterated that the cow suspected of having bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, was born before the August 1997 ban on ...
WASHINGTON -- One of the biggest hurdles in fighting ailments such as mad cow disease and its human version has been the lack of a way to diagnose the illness. A new process may point the way to a ...
The government has ordered a definitive laboratory test after two preliminary screening tests raised the possibility of mad cow disease in the tissue of a recently slaughtered animal, federal ...
WASHINGTON -- No sign of mad cow disease was found in an animal that was singled out in preliminary screening last week, the Agriculture Department said Wednesday after a follow-up test. Officials ...