mad cow disease

In the ghoulish world of infectious disease agents, prions might well be the zombies. Unlike bacteria and viruses, prions have no DNA, yet still manage to replicate.

PULLMAN – The United States Department of Agriculture has extended the contract for testing for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease, at Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. The new contract will run through Sept. 30, 2007, with the option for further extensions. “Reports circulated in the media a few months […]

It’s almost like a secret around the Palouse — not only was the nation’s first case of mad cow disease confirmed in a Washington State cow, but the test used to diagnose it is also produced in the region — in Pullman to be exact. Long before the holstein on the southeast Washington farm caused […]