Mad cow disease confirmed on UK farm as animal shows symptoms of 1990s outbreak that led to culling millions of cattle

A CASE of 'mad cow disease' has been discovered on a farm in Essex, officials say. The cow showed symptoms of the deadly disease - formally known as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) - that ravaged Britain's cattle herds in the 1990s and led to millions of cows being slaughtered. An atypical case of BSE was...