It is the original example of a group of diseases, known as the "transmissible spongiform encephalopathies" (TSE), sometimes known as the "prion" diseases. The diseases include Creutzfeldt Jakob ...

Among the animal spongiform encephalopathies -- scrapies, transmissible mink encephalopathy, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) -- BSE is certainly the disease that has wreaked the most ...

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the Manitowoc County Deer Advisory Council are co-hosting a public meeting at 6 p.m. Feb. 4 at Woodland Dunes Nature Center and Preserve. At the meeting, ...

The CDC states that CWD is a prion disease or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Other TSEs include bovine spongiform encephalopathy or “mad cow disease” in cattle and scrapie in sheep ...

It’s classified as a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) and is similar to scrapie in sheep, mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, according to the Game ...

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 ...