Read more: Your Skin Can Reveal Some Surprising Things About Your Health Officially called bovine spongiform encephalopathy, mad cow disease affects the brains of cows, eventually causing death ...

Although no cases of mad cow disease have been found in humans or livestock in the United States, according to a Purdue expert, recent news articles have suggested that individuals have died from the ...

One way this can happen is when people eat beef from cows that have bovine spongiform encephalopathy, better known as "mad cow disease." The U.S. has had strict regulations in place since the ...