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Should we still be worried?
GUARDIAN
There was a long night ahead. A group of scientists, each expert in the minutiae of disease, had been summoned to an emergency meeting in London. Some caught planes and trains back from a conference...
The Hard Sell
GUARDIAN
Even before Jamie Oliver's school dinners campaign, the provenance of our food was a hot topic. And following BSE and other scares, the quality and origin of our meat is an even hotter one. Now a...
Filter could stop spread of vCJD through transfusion
INDEPENDENT 22 December 2006
A new blood filter device could in future prevent people being infected with the human form of mad cow disease through transfusions, it was revealed today. The technique can effectively remove the...
Dickinson State University - Alumni News
DICKINSONSTATE
In December 2003, a single Washington state Holstein infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) caused more than 30 countries to refuse U.S. beef. The animal, infected with what is also...
Scientists hail 'vCJD technique'
BBC
Scientists have found a way to remove disease-causing proteins from infected animal blood, which they hope may fight the human form of mad cow disease. The UK and US researchers identified a...
Prion Filter Could Prevent VCJD Spread From Donated Blood
MEDICALNEWSTODAY
"Reduction in infectivity of endogenous transmissible spongiform encephalopathies present in blood by adsorption to selective affinity resins.""Reduction in infectivity of endogenous transmissible...
Filtering blood may block human mad cow in transfusions: study
CBC
Researchers may have found a way to block the spread of the human form of mad cow disease through blood transfusions by filtering the blood first, a new study shows.Earlier research has raised the...
E Canada Now - Breaking News » Scientists Have Discovered a Filter to Remove Human Mad Cow from Donated Blood
ECANADANOW
Earlier research has raised concerns about the ease with which the disease can be spread through human blood transfusion — much easier than eating meat from infected cows.Currently, there is no...
CIDRAP >> Canada reaches dead end in BSE probe
CIDRAP.UMN
Dec 21, 2006 (CIDRAP News) – Government investigators were unable to determine where Canada's latest cow infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was born, making it impossible to tell...
Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
CHRON
TOKYO — Japanese restaurants are set to urge the government to ease restrictions on U.S. beef imports, saying the stringent rules are causing a serious supply crunch, officials said Tuesday.Though...
US rejects British Katrina beef
BBC Saturday, 15 October 2005, 08:27 GMT 09:27 UK
The US has blocked the distribution of around 350,000 packaged meals donated by Britain for victims of Hurricane Katrina, because of mad cow disease.US officials said the meals - routinely eaten by...
Minister: Import of live breeding cattle to start - Turkish Daily News Dec 19, 2006
TURKISHDAILYNEWS
Turkey will start importing meat as well as live breeding cattle, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Mehdi Eker said yesterday in a wide-ranging interview on agriculture policy with the...
Agriculture Minister: Import of live breeding cattle to start - Turkish Daily News Dec 19, 2006
TURKISHDAILYNEWS
Turkey is to ease restrictions on imports of meat as well as live breeding cattle, said Agriculture and Rural Affairs Minister Mehdi Eker yesterday in a wide-ranging interview on agricultural...
Japanese restaurants to call for more U.S. beef imports
IHT
TOKYO: Japanese restaurants are set to urge the government to ease restrictions on U.S. beef imports, saying the stringent rules are causing a serious supply crunch, officials said Tuesday.Though...
Agency can’t trace BSE cow (updated 4:12 p.m.)
CANADA
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has not been able to trace Canada’s eighth case of BSE back to its birth farm.The Charolais crossbred cow died of bovine spongiform encephalopathy on an...
Reuters.ca
TODAY.REUTERS
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's most recent case of mad cow disease was most likely caused by contaminated feed, a senior expert at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency told Reuters on Tuesday.An...
Expert View: Avoid the red-tape bear trap, Gordon. Call DC
INDEPENDENT
Compared with the rest of Europe, the UK has a reputation for waging war on red tape. The Government has spent a lot of time and money on a wide array of initiatives to help make UK plc more...
BSE blood test gives new hope
GUARDIAN
A blood test for the rogue proteins that cause BSE, or mad cow disease, has been developed by US scientists, raising hopes that people could soon be screened for the human form of the condition,...
US rejects British hurricane relief meals over BSE fears
GUARDIAN
More than 400,000 packaged meals sent by Britain to feed victims of Hurricane Katrina at a cost of nearly £2.7m have been sitting in a warehouse in Arkansas because of fears of mad cow disease and a...
They said millions of us would have CJD by now. Isn't the bird flu scare likely to be just as accurate?
GUARDIAN
In the latter 1980s I treated myself weekly to an M&S fillet of beef, cooked to bloody perfection. In 2005, I awaken in wonderment: why am I not dead?Funny how yesterday's scares fade from...
EU lifts British beef ban
GUARDIAN
EU veterinary experts agreed unanimously today to lift the union's ban on British beef exports, imposed 10 years ago to prevent the spread of mad cow disease.The EU's standing committee on the...
British blood products may pose vCJD risk in 14 countries
GUARDIAN
The government has been forced to warn 14 countries that patients are in danger of developing the human form of mad cow disease as a result of contaminated British blood products sold...
Violin strings tangled up in BSE fears
GUARDIAN
Craftsmen in Italy who make strings for violins, cellos and other musical instruments are challenging a European Union ban on the use of animal guts because of fears of BSE.The Aquila company, the...
Holy cow!
GUARDIAN
The Politics of BSEby Richard Packer320pp, Palgrave, £50Sir Richard Packer, once a Whitehall high flyer and the youngest ever permanent secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture, is an angry...
Human mad cow epidemic 'could be bigger than feared'
GUARDIAN
Far more people in the UK could be infected with the human form of mad cow disease than originally estimated, scientists warned today.The true prevalence of the condition might not become apparent...
Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Third U.S. mad cow case reported in Virginia, CDC says
SCIAM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Saudi-born man living in Virginia has been identified as the third reported U.S. case of a human form of mad cow disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and...
Japan's health ministry confirms country's 31st case of mad cow disease
CANADA
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's Health Ministry said Friday it has confirmed the country's 31st case of mad cow disease. Tests on an 84-month-old Holstein showed the cow, born at a ranch on Japan's...
Cattle Network - Connecting The Beef Industry Worldwide
CATTLENETWORK
TOKYO (AP)--Japan’s Health Ministry said Friday it has confirmed the country’s 31st case of mad cow disease in an animal. Tests on an 84-month-old Holstein showed the cow, born at a ranch on Japan’s...
Mad cow disease: Still a concern - MayoClinic.com
MAYOCLINIC
Mad cow disease was first officially diagnosed in Britain in 1986. Since then, nearly 200,000 cases of the disease have been confirmed worldwide, with only a few of them occurring in the United...
State of Illinois Home - IGNN (Illinois Government News Network)
ILLINOIS
SPRINGFIELD – Governor Rod R. Blagojevich today announced Illinois will receive additional federal funds to continue important on-farm inspections for “mad cow” disease. The U.S. Food and...
Firms seek better sterilisation
BBC Friday, 11 March, 2005, 08:18 GMT
More effective ways to sterilise surgical instruments contaminated with microbes which may cause human variant CJD are to be developed.London research firm D-Gen and Antec International of Sudbury...
Dutch confirm first case of vCJD
BBC Thursday, 21 April, 2005, 17:10 GMT 18:10 UK
The Netherlands has diagnosed its first known case of the human form of "mad cow disease" - known as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD).The patient is in hospital and health checks are under...
US confirms new case of 'mad cow'
BBC Friday, 24 June, 2005, 21:00 GMT 22:00 UK
A second case of BSE or "mad cow disease" has been confirmed in the US, officials say.It was verified by tests conducted by a laboratory in Britain after a suspect test was announced earlier this...
BSE ban on older cattle dropped
BBC Thursday, 15 September 2005, 13:53 GMT 14:53 UK
The nine-year ban on the human consumption of beef produced from cattle aged over 30 months is being lifted, the government has announced.Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett is accepting advice...
EU British beef curbs to be eased
BBC Wednesday, 28 September 2005, 14:58 GMT 15:58 UK
The EU is set to allow more British beef exports after a favourable report on BSE prevention measures in the UK.UK beef production has been restricted since 1996, when the cattle disease was linked...
UK beef export ban lifted by EU
BBC Wednesday, 8 March 2006, 16:55 GMT
A worldwide ban on British beef exports has been lifted by the EU - 10 years after it was introduced to prevent the spread of mad cow disease. Live animals, beef and beef products should be able to...
Third US 'mad cow' case confirmed
BBC Monday, 13 March 2006, 21:59 GMT
A dead cow in Alabama state has tested positive for BSE, or "mad cow disease", the third such case in the US.Confirming the result, the US authorities stressed the cow had not entered the human food...
Canada confirms new mad cow case
BBC Sunday, 16 April 2006, 21:47 GMT 22:47 UK
Canadian authorities have confirmed a new case of mad cow disease - in the western province of British Columbia.Food inspection authorities said the finding in the Fraser Valley dairy cow did not...
Japan agrees to lift US beef ban
BBC Wednesday, 21 June 2006, 05:15 GMT 06:15 UK
Japan has agreed to lift its ban on US beef imports, a move that will allow American producers to resume exports to their biggest overseas market.Japan's Agriculture Ministry said US imports would...
Europe diary: UKIP in Romania
BBC Friday, 22 December 2006, 10:50 GMT
BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell shadows the leader of the UK Independence Party on a trip to Romania, looking for signs of a softening to his opposition to the country's forthcoming entry into the...
'Mad cow' cluster on Welsh farm
BBC Monday, 30 May, 2005, 14:56 GMT 15:56 UK
Three cows on the same farm in Wales have tested positive for BSE, the rural affairs ministry Defra has confirmed.A spokesman for Defra said the first case was identified more than two months ago...
'We've had a kicking over the last 10 years'
GUARDIAN
There are days when Steve Conisbee, heading for the farm office at 6am to start on the day's landslip of paperwork, wonders what he's doing in farming. Yesterday wasn't one of them: rain was falling...
London Irish 29 Ulster 13: Catt guides Geraghty in demolition of Ulster
INDEPENDENT 11 December 2006
The Irish have it right. Everyone at Twickenham says so, from the Rugby Football Union chief executive, Francis Baron, to the bloke on the gate with his walkie-talkie and his hobnail boots. Even...
Patients face 'substantial CJD risk'
INDEPENDENT 08 December 2006
Twenty four people accidentally given blood transfusions contaminated with the human form of mad cow disease are now at "substantial" risk, an expert said today. Professor John Collinge made the...
Andrew Tyler: Don't follow the herd and give a cow for Christmas
INDEPENDENT 27 November 2006
We're about to enter the season of gut-busting excess, when the tills don't stop ringing and our appetites for giving and receiving get well and truly sated. Just in time, another gift idea has come...
Abattoir fraud could bring BSE back to Britain
INDEPENDENT 20 November 2006
Meat contaminated with BSE may be on sale throughout Britain because of widespread fraud at abattoirs, according to inspectors. Slaughterhouses are accused of swapping samples from carcasses to stop...
Preview: Max Brooks' Festival Of The (Living) Dead! Barbican, London
INDEPENDENT 01 November 2006
As the author of The Zombie Survival Guide and the recent zombie-invasion novel World War Z, Max Brooks is the ideal person to answer the question of why the zombie genre is so popular. "The genre...
Barnyard (PG)
INDEPENDENT 20 October 2006
Anthropomorphism gone mad. The gimmick is hardly new: once the farmer is out of sight, his animals spring up on two legs, chat and joke, steal cars and hold barn dances. Sam Elliott voices, with...
Romania and Bulgaria given EU go-ahead
INDEPENDENT 27 September 2006
Romania and Bulgaria have been given a grudging go-ahead to join the EU in January, marking the final chapter of a historic expansion to bring former Warsaw Pact countries into the Western fold....
Gum disease: the lowdown on plaque attack
INDEPENDENT 19 September 2006
The Government's recent instructions telling us how to brush our teeth properly met with derision; another example of the nanny state gone mad. But we should listen. It may not only help to save...
Scientists warn of 'mad honey disease'
INDEPENDENT 10 September 2006
Mad honey disease is among the rarest afflictions in the world, but it appears to be on the increase. Only 58 cases have been reported worldwide, but eight people were treated in 2005 alone.The...
Could synthetic blood become lifesaver of the future?
INDEPENDENT 21 June 2006
More than 350 years ago, William Harvey revolutionised medical science by describing for the first time how blood circulated around the body. Now scientists are on the verge of another seismic...
Thousands more could be carrying vCJD, say scientists
INDEPENDENT 19 May 2006
The brain disease variant CJD, triggered by eating BSE-infected meat, may have infected thousands more people than previously thought, scientists say. Tests on tissue samples have shown that a...
Joanna Lumley to lead protest against export of veal calves
INDEPENDENT 01 May 2006
Joanna Lumley will spearhead a protest calling on the Government to keep a ban on live veal calf exports, 10 years after the practice prompted angry demonstrations across Britain. Campaigners are...
Letters: Bird flu
INDEPENDENT 13 April 2006
Bird flu: There's no need to panic, but there's reason to prepare Sir: Your editorial on bird flu (7 April) is quite correct that at present risks to humans in the UK are very small indeed,...
Geoffrey Lean: On a wing and a prayer
INDEPENDENT 09 April 2006
Heaven knows, I never thought I would feel bound to say that the civil servants charged with defending Britain from birds with flu were being unfairly censured. They belong, after all, to the same...
'Silent killer vCJD is more widespread than thought'
INDEPENDENT 27 March 2006
The incurable brain disease vCJD, the human form of BSE (mad cow disease), may be widespread and advancing undetected, scientists say. Concerns over the safety of blood transfusion and the use of...
Thousands 'are at risk of vCJD from blood donations'
INDEPENDENT 19 March 2006
Thousands of people could be infected with the human form of "mad cow" disease from blood transfusions each year because safeguards are inadequate, medical experts have warned. The incurable...
Q: When is a kangaroo not a kangaroo?
INDEPENDENT 21 December 2005
Australians could soon be tossing a chunk of australus on the barbecue, because of plans to rename kangaroo meat and divorce it from its cuddly Skippy image. While kangaroo is a lean and delicious...
Cooking up a storm: Behind the scenes with Blair, Straw and the EU presidency
INDEPENDENT 11 February 2006
Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac, who disagreed over reform of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy There is something about the EU that seems to bring out the chef in its leaders. When I was making...
Dominic Lawson: I'm not scared of avian flu (and I've had it)
INDEPENDENT 21 February 2006
It was the truckload of "organic" pigeon droppings that almost did for me. Five years ago this ephemerally trendy means of fertilisation worked very well in helping our vegetables grow big and...
Terence Blacker: Deadly animal virus causes activists' rage
INDEPENDENT 25 August 2006
It is sometimes difficult to resist the notion that many of those who feel most passionately about the rights of animals have picked up some ghastly virus, perhaps while rescuing beagles from a...
Scientists seek permission for human-cow embryos
INDEPENDENT 07 November 2006
Scientists in Britain have asked for permission to create "hybrid" embryos from animal eggs and human cells for medical research into some of the most intractable diseases. The aim is to create a...
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