Mad cow disease, known also as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is a disease that eats holes in the brains of cattle.    From Wordnik.com.  [December 2003] Reference

And he found that 19 out of the 20 had some signs of a disease called traumatic encephalopathy which is an Alzheimer's like illness.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2010] Reference

Sometimes of concussive level but even as less sub-concussive level and the development of chronic traumatic encephalopathy which is this terrible, progressive dementia that afflicts some of our athletes.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2009] Reference

GRACE: Yes, the condition is static encephalopathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2007] Reference

MCKEE: They've all had changes of traumatic encephalopathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 28, 2009] Reference

MICKEE: They've all had changes of traumatic encephalopathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 31, 2009] Reference

Hypertension, sometimes becoming malignant (encephalopathy).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 14] Reference

Ashley has a severe brain impairment called static encephalopathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2007] Reference

The encephalopathy, what that means is there's been damage to the brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2007] Reference

MCKEE: Well, we think this is how chronic traumatic encephalopathy starts.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2009] Reference

In some very rare cases, vaccination can cause encephalopathy in some children.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Kirby: Breaking: Vaccine Court Ruling Due Thursday] Reference

SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: She has a condition known as static encephalopathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2007] Reference

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

And, more than 1,300 vaccine court cases were already paid out for encephalopathy and seizure disorders.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Kirby: Top US Panel: Some Vaccine-Autism Research is "Appropriate," "Worthwhile" and "Warranted"] 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

This trigger results in: STEP THREE: Acute illness, seizures, encephalopathy, developmental regression, autism.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] 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

This mitochrondrial dysfunction resulted in brain injury as manifested by regressive encephalopathy, autism and seizures.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 6, 2008] Reference

Look at all the vaccine injury cases and symptoms -- encephalopathy, mitochondrial dysfunction, gastrointestinal lesions.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Deal with internal hemorrhaging, ripped esophagi, fungal and bacterial infections, and a brain ailment call hepatic encephalopathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Cromwell: Put the Knife Down, Foie Gras Ban a Progressive Step] 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

But certainly at autopsy, you can find that, you know, that same steroid encephalopathy by actually looking at the brain under the microscope.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2007] 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

Id. He diagnosed CHILD with "regressive encephalopathy with features consistent with an autistic spectrum disorder, following normal development.".    From Wordnik.com.  [David Kirby: The Vaccine-Autism Court Document Every American Should Read] 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

She's 9 years old and she was born with static encephalopathy -- that's a brain disorder that doesn't change, doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2007] Reference

POLING: I don't think that vaccines are the only way you can tip over a child like Hannah to regress and have encephalopathy and have regressive autism.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2008] 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

That's the youngest brain we've studied that had traumatic encephalopathy, we've studied brain at the college levels that also had traumatic encephalopathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2009] Reference

Such diseases include peripheral neuropathy, encephalopathy (including autism, presumably) Guillain-Barré syndrome and progressive focal neurologic disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Kirby: The Pentagon -- A Voice of Reason on Vaccines and Autism?] 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

Only comparatively recently was a possible mechanism by which the whole cell pertussis toxin could cause encephalopathy identified by researchers in Ireland.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

The neurosurgeon, Julian Bailes of West Virginia, actually looked at the brain, and he determined that Benoit has something known as traumatic encephalopathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2007] Reference

The neurosurgeon, Julian Bailes out of West Virginia, actually looked at the brain, and he determined that Benoit has something known as traumatic encephalopathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2007] 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

Colors he applied with his fingers and thumbs, scooping them out of tubs until he suffered from lead encephalopathy, leading to deafness, depression, and insanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary]

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