The emergence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease has highlighted the need to develop possible therapies.

The tissue has been banned by the European Union to reduce the spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE.

The entire world could be exposed to a memory-destroying, brain-wasting sickness as insidious as bovine spongiform encephalopathy-MadCow disease.

Eight new cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy were found in the national herd this week,according to the Department of Agriculture and Food.

Ten cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy were confirmed in the national herd during September, according to the Department of Agriculture and Food.

The Egyptians stopped the import of live cattle in January because of a rise in bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the Irish herd.

Northern Ireland cattle were banned from coming south because of the high incidence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the North.

Another was that a beef by-product used in the manufacture of diapers put the nation's babies at risk of succumbing to bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

A statement from his office said last night that the money was being made available for research into topics related to transmissible bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

ANOTHER case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy has been confirmed by the Department of Agriculture, writes Sean MacConnell, Agriculture Correspondent.disease confirmed in the Republic since 1988.

Mad cow disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, first emerged in Britain in the 1980s and has been found in herds in several European and other countries.

The 69 cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) found in Irish cattle last year was the lowest number recorded since 1996, end-of-year figures have shown.

An Taisce has said that the carcasses of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy-infected cattle should be treated as hazardous waste.

The animal, born in 1998, was identified this week among the six latest cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy announced.

The animal, which was born in February 1999, is the fifth-youngest found with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in the State.

THERE were eight new cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in February, according to the Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry yesterday.