Three words: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, aka BSE or mad cow disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kerry Trueman: Meat Takes a Beating, Gets a Blessing on Larry King] Reference

(Jan. 26, 2007) - Do genes affect bovine spongiform encephalopathy -- also known as BSE, or "mad cow" disease?.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In the last year, we have tested 20,526 head of cattle for BSE, which is triple the level of the previous year of 2002.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2003] Reference

It touched an intra-day high of Rs 57.4 on the BSE, which is 109 per cent higher than its previous day's close of Rs 21.4.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories - Google News] Reference

Misfolded proteins are also the source of prion-based diseases - the suspected infective agent for diseases such as BSE in cows and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease CJD in humans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference

Fears were often related to past food controversies such as BSE and GM.    From Wordnik.com.  [BakeryAndSnacks RSS] Reference

The lab is currently in New York and researches diseases such as BSE and the West Nile virus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brownfield] Reference

The cause of diseases such as BSE in cattle and Creutzfeld-Jakob disease in humans is a prion protein.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wildlife Disease News Digest] Reference

Funny how the very diseases that you so call educated people used for fear mongering such as BSE and Foot and Mouth is not on either list.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Prions show evolution without DNA: study diseases such as BSE can evolve, even though they contain no genetic information, researchers say.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Women 'too busy' to go for cancer screenings] Reference

That's the scariest part of the BSE epidemic: not knowing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fear On The Hoof] Reference

Scientists now know that the BSE pathogen is highly infectious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fear On The Hoof] Reference

And BSE alone has cost the country 4.6 billion pounds since 1996.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mad Cows And Englishmen] Reference

They hope that a test for BSE in live animals will soon be available.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lots Of Bull] Reference

Prusiner's theory explains one of the most confounding things about BSE.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAD COW: WHAT'S SAFE NOW?] Reference

Why else would it be standard policy to test only one in every hundred cows for BSE?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

How could the land of the Double Whopper fail to foresee the predictable danger of BSE?.    From Wordnik.com.  [LEAVING A BAD TASTE] Reference

Bullfighting, Spain's fiesta nacional, is suffering on the horns of the ongoing BSE crisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lots Of Bull] Reference

Many European consumers and cattle growers are too nervous about BSE to care what Brussels thinks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe's Beef Scare] Reference

But recently introduced rules require any meat destined for human consumption to be tested for BSE.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lots Of Bull] Reference

"We penalize our cattle breeders because our BSE safety measures in France are so rigorous," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe's Beef Scare] Reference

At the height of the BSE epidemic, Britain was logging more than 30,000 cases of mad-cow disease a year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wearyingly Familiar] 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

Thai officials belatedly began reacting to increasing press reports of the spread of BSE throughout Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scare Spreads East] Reference

After Idole's herdmates were killed, the government carefully checked their brain tissues for evidence of BSE.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe's Beef Scare] Reference

International health officials warn that a full-scale BSE outbreak in the developing world could inflict havoc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fear On The Hoof] Reference

Salmonella is "much more of a risk" than BSE, according to Dr. Lester Crawford, deputy commissioner of the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [LEAVING A BAD TASTE] Reference

In the short term, Brazilian agriculture officials say, BSE fears are likely to depress the global beef market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe's Beef Scare] Reference

Most scientists believe BSE infects cows when they are fed the ground-up carcasses of animals -- including other cows.    From Wordnik.com.  [LEAVING A BAD TASTE] Reference

They accounted for 150,000 to 200,000 of the 35 million cattle sent to slaughter last year, of which only 20,000 were tested for BSE.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAD COW: WHAT'S SAFE NOW?] Reference

The agronomists insist that MBM feed has never been commonly used in Brazil or Argentina -- a big plus for beef lovers afraid of BSE.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe's Beef Scare] Reference

Then, a few weeks ago, an American cow tested positive for BSE, triggering 48 countries, led by Japan, to ban the sale of American beef.    From Wordnik.com.  [LEAVING A BAD TASTE] Reference

Last week his government announced a ban on all imported beef from Europe that has not been subjected to Britain's rigorous BSE controls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting The Hang Of Power] Reference

Britain's export statisticians never knew how much of the MBM feed went to poultry and pigs, which seem to be immune to the BSE infection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fear On The Hoof] Reference