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 ...

Health officials confirm the country's fourth-ever case of an infected cow. April 24, 2012— -- The Department of Agriculture today confirmed a case of mad cow disease found in a dairy cow in ...

A cow that died recently on a Dutch farm tested positive for mad cow disease, the government of the Netherlands announced Wednesday, in a rare case of the cattle illness that can cause a fatal brain ...

A cow at a South Carolina beef processing facility recently tested positive for atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly referred to as mad cow disease. It is the seventh case of mad cow ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. A few days after the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) announcement last month that it had discovered a ...

The Agriculture Department, under fire for the way it has handled the discovery of mad cow disease in a Washington state cow, said yesterday that it will greatly expand the number of cattle it will ...

March 7 -- In the end they found only one sick cow — only one out of 36 million slaughtered last year. But to many people, even that single case was scary news. It dominated the headlines when the ...

WASHINGTON -- Inspectors failed to perform a required mad cow disease test on a suspicious animal in Texas, the U.S. Agriculture Department said today, just as the Bush administration is pushing to ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Agriculture Department, investigating a possible case of mad cow disease in an animal previously declared free of the ailment, conducted more tests only after being urged to do ...

The Agriculture Department says it is testing animals from the Texas herd where it traced the nation's second case of mad cow disease. Many in the cattle industry, and in Congress, are critical of how ...