Millions of cattle were culled in the UK in the 1990s during a BSE epidemic. Strict controls were introduced to protect consumers after BSE was linked to the fatal brain condition vCJD in humans.

More than 175,000 cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) have been diagnosed in cattle in the UK since 1986. The recognition during this time of previously unknown transmissible ...

It is now clear that bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as 'mad cow disease', is not merely a UK phenomenon ... have found BSE in their cattle herds. And, over the past few ...

In the 1990s, millions of cattle were culled across the UK during a classical BSE epidemic, linked to cattle eating rendered animal products contaminated with the BSE agent. Due to a ban in 1996 ...

It is likely that sheep will have eaten the contaminated meat and bone meal which caused BSE in cattle in the early 1990s. The FSA, however, stresses that at this stage there is no reason for ...

In this particular case what is most surprising is that cattle in the region are only fed with grass. BSE or ‘mad cow’ emerged in the eighties in the UK in livestock fed on special rations ...

Certain types of sheep offal should be banned from sale to protect shoppers from the dangers of BSE, a former Government ... of 'mad cow dis-ease' in cattle. Its human equivalent, vCJD, has ...

The peak of the infection occurred in Great Britain in 1993, when about 1000 cows were being diagnosed with BSE every week. Symptoms in cattle include lack of coordination and unsteady gait ...

and added to cattle feed – could be to blame for the spread. Could feeding cows to cows be recycling the disease? Based on John’s evidence, three years after the first cases of BSE ...