CJD results in the brain literally being turned into sponge-like, hole-filled tissue (the reason the disease is also known as spongiform encephalopathy).    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Consumers Association News Headlines] Reference

In describing the sponge-like ( "spongiform") nature of brains of infected animals, the vet mentioned "Holes in the brain are not good, not conducive to long life.".    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

He coined the term transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mad Cow Epidemic is here to stay.] Reference

I know hdhouse is working with a spongiform brain, but come on!.    From Wordnik.com.  ["GOP Know-Nothings Fought Pandemic Preparedness."] Reference

The ban came after an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies have a long incubation period.    From Wordnik.com.  [FDA, USDA et al Strengthen BSE Feed Safeguards (or dangle another carrot in front of consumers)] Reference

We all need election 08 shots for transmissible spongiform encephalopathy or what ?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election 2008 is heading for the history books] Reference

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy first reared its ugly head in Britain, November 1986.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2005] Reference

I bite a mouthful of hotdog, the skin giving resistance, the innards salty, spongiform.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Flea Market] Reference

Is there something about too many NYT best-sellers that causes spongiform encephalopathy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [come let me play with you, black satin dancer--] Reference

Practically nothing kills prions, the agent that transmits bovine spongiform encephalopathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Which is worse? Germs in our Food or the Antibiotics that Kill Them?] Reference

(CJD) in June, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) - commonly called "mad cow" disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Even the animal form of the scourge, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), has not yet surfaced in Asia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scare Spreads East] Reference

FEIG: BSE, or spongiform encephalopathy, is a brain-wasting disease that causes mad cow disease in cattle.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 24, 2005] Reference

The disease, also called bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is thought to have killed 50 Britons last year.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

That has been the case in Europe, where the impact of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) continues to reverberate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Role of science in regulation] Reference

Of course, Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy that occurs in deer, elk, and moose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cause for Alarm?] Reference

When cows are forced to eat nothing but themselves, they contract a lethal prion disease called bovine spongiform encephalitis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference

Citing the fear of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as mad-cow disease, Japan has also limited imports of U.S. beef.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kan Launches Japan Free-Trade Push] Reference

British beef imports, imposed amid fears of contamination by bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly called mad cow disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

FIRFER: Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is thought to be caused by an abnormal form of a cell protein called a prion.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2004] Reference

Times, said Eckard died of "spongiform encephalitis appearing to suggest CJD", but it did not state whether this was related to mad cow disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

People who eat tainted beef can contract variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which is a similar transmissible spongiform encephalopathy in humans.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Korea Reversal on Beef] Reference

The agency said the animal was detected as part of its ongoing surveillance program for mad cow disease - or bovine spongiform encephalopathy BSE.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference

Scientists concluded that the disease was a spongiform encephalopathy, or a disease of the brain that left minute sponge-like holes in brain tissue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mad Cow Epidemic is here to stay.] Reference

The EC ended its three-year ban on British beef, which had been linked to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [1999, March 24-June 12] Reference

So when Japanese scientists diagnosed a cow with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in September 2001, it was nothing less than a national crisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [LEAVING A BAD TASTE] Reference

FDA allowed "known TSE-positive (Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy Mad CowDisease) material to be used in pet food, pig, chicken and fish feed.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary, Will You Renounce Your Ties to Monsanto?] Reference

Regarding the other spongiform encephalopathy in the news, mad cow disease (BSE), estimates are that close to 250 million people were exposed in Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

U.S. beef was banned by South Korea in December 2003 after the first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease, was discovered in the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crisis Saps Hunger for U.S. Beef] Reference

The scare arose when it was believed there could be a possible link between Creutzfeld-Jacob disease in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

On an epi-related sidenote, the lab from Britain confirmed that the cow in Texas had bovine spongiform encephalopathy (that's mad cow disease for the lay people).    From Wordnik.com.  [qdiosa Diary Entry] Reference

Nor is mad cow or bovine spongiform encephalopathy a distant fear after the largest meat recall in US history last year, much of it destined for school lunch programs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Which is worse? Germs in our Food or the Antibiotics that Kill Them?] Reference

BSE and CJD were both varieties of a rare group transmissible spongiform encephalopathies that caused microscopic holes in the brain and for which there was no known cure.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Sometimes, those illnesses have the potential to make people sick as well (See: bovine spongiform encephalopathy/mad cow disease, MRSA, swine flu, E-coli, salmonella, etc).    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Compares Animal Factory to Sinclair and Schlosser] Reference

South Africa banned all imports of British beef March 22 amid worldwide fears that bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), known as mad cow disease, could be passed to humans.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Before Russia banned U.S. beef in reaction to the discovery of a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease, it was the fifth-largest market for U.S. exports.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Mad Cow to Cash Cow] Reference

The 17 cases of BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) detected under very limited testing in Canada demonstrate that USDA grossly underestimated the prevalence of BSE in Canada.    From Wordnik.com.  [Group Submits Supplemental Comments] Reference