BARRHEAD, Alberta -- Surrounded by 11,000 head of cattle, flat, frozen rangeland reaching the horizon and two generations of family history, rancher Walter Schmidt takes refuge in numbers. His own 68 ...

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 ...

The repeated assertion by government officials that American beef is safe to eat -- despite the discovery of the first U.S. case of mad cow disease -- is based in large part on painstakingly acquired ...

"The incidence of BSE in the Canadian cattle herd remains extremely low and continues to decline due to intervention measures such as the ruminant-to-ruminant feed ban." According to Eby, last year ...

Twenty years ago, on Dec. 23, panic descended on Central Washington and the nation’s cattle industry over a single cow. U.S. Department of Agriculture officials announced a Washington state dairy ...

OTTAWA — An Canadian dairy cow that was diagnosed last month with mad cow disease probably contracted the disease from contaminated feed, federal regulators said. The finding by the Canadian Food ...

WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Federal investigators are encountering a "tangled web" in their efforts to identify the herd of origin of a Holstein cow that tested positively for bovine spongiform ...

ST. PAUL -- USDA acted aggressively to protect the nation's food supply after the mad cow discovery, William Hueston says, but there's still more to do. Hueston, director of the University of ...

The deadly lowing of “mad cow” disease resounded anew last week, causing fearful Europeans to question the ability and willingness of health authorities to prevent meat from cattle infected with ...

TORONTO — Canada confirmed a case of mad cow disease on April 16 at a farm in British Columbia — the country’s fifth case since May 2003, when the United States closed its border to Canadian beef. The ...