mad cow disease is a popular term given to a disease of cattle known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE. There have been more than 176,000 cases in cattle worldwide since the disease was ...

In the 1990s Britain was hit by an epidemic of a fatal ... still searching for answers to two big questions - where did mad cow disease originally come from and how did humans get infected?

7. Another theory is that pesticides played a part Before the days of Mad Cow Disease, cattle in Britain were being doused with a pesticide, used to kill grubs of a pest called the warble fly.

since the study fell within the period there was a mad cow outbreak in Britain. The study also ruled out the possibility of the disease having been caused by a medical-related procedure ...

In the late 1990s, there was an outbreak of mad cow disease in humans in Great Britain, which caused the country to suspend beef consumption for several months. At the time, the disease was ...