So far, mad-cow disease and its human counterpart have never been detected in the United States. Several federal agencies have teamed up to try to keep the disease out of American pastures.

In the 1950s a disease similar to mad cow was found in Papua New Guinea. A tribe there got a brain-wasting disease called kuru after eating the prion-infected brains of dead relatives in a ...

Mad cow disease has been detected in a cow in California, the first time since 2006 that the deadly disease has surfaced in the U.S. What does that mean for those of us who might want to eat a ...

A new toy in France has inspired fits of laughter in some shoppers, while others are fit to be tied. Making light of mad cow disease, the Funny Cow is a stuffed bovine that laughs itself into a sta… ...

Ron and Marilyn Carter, of Laburnum Grove, say the children's vibrating Mad Cow toy is insulting to the memory of their son, Andrew, 27, who died of the human form of BSE in February.

Read CNN’s Fast Facts on Mad Cow Disease and learn more about the transmissible fatal brain disease found in cattle.

Mad Cow Disease: WebMD corrects some of the misconceptions about mad cow disease and its risk to humans. Know more about symptoms, causes, and treatments for the vCJD.

In what could be a devastating blow to America’s beef industry, federal authorities announced Tuesday that their tests had indicated the first-ever case of mad cow disease in the United States ...

Big Number. 232. That’s how many people have died from the variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease linked to mad cow disease, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The majority of these ...

Germans buy 40 percent less beef these days because of fears of mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE, and less sausage containing beef byproducts, a German staple.

Four years ago in England, Pamela Beyless wore the blank human face of mad cow disease. Her father, Arthur, recalls her regression from confusion, to loss of balance, to total disability.