The Hood River County Health Department confirmed April 14 that two people have died from a mad cow-like illness called ...

A variant of CJD has been tied to eating meat from cattle infected with mad cow disease, another prion disorder, but Elliott said the cases in Hood River are not believed to be linked to cattle.

They still didn’t know how the disease had started but the Feed Ban did halt the spread of Mad Cow Disease, proving one thing: cow cannibalism had spread the madness. 4. It took a decade for the ...

Or it can simply occur sporadically for no clear reason. What Ever Happened to Mad Cow? Most CJD cases fall in the last bucket. But over thirty years ago, there was an outbreak of CJD caused by ...

Three cases of a rare and fatal brain disorder have been identified in Hood River County, Oregon, local health officials have confirmed. The disease is related to mad cow disease and can lead to ...

30 years on, scientists and activists are still searching for answers to two big questions - where did mad cow disease originally come from and how did humans get infected? This crazy tale of ...

A case of classical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), 'mad cow' has been confirmed on a farm in Ayrshire, Scotland, with movement restrictions in place on four farms. The case was identified ...

"At this time, there is no identifiable link between these three cases," the health department added. The mad cow-like disease reported in Oregon is called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), named ...

Two people in Oregon have died from a rare, progressive brain disorder similar to "mad cow disease" that leads to dementia and is %100 fatal. The Hood River County Health Department confirmed the ...