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Variant of mad cow disease may be transmitted by blood transfusions, according to animal study (Physorg)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:46:03 GMT

Blood transfusions are a valuable treatment mechanism in modern medicine, but can come with the risk of donor disease transmission. Researchers are continually studying the biology of blood products to understand how certain diseases are transmitted in an effort to reduce this risk during blood transfusions. According to a study in sheep prepublished online in Blood, the official journal...

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Mad Cow: "Don't Look, Don't Find" * (Fanatic Cook)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:22:00 GMT

* Jean Halloran, Director of the Consumer Policy Institute at Consumer's Union , in her description of the USDA's mad cow policy. Mike from comments shared these two YouTubes that I think lay bare the goings on in this country regarding mad cow disease. The first mad cow found in the US, in 2003, wasn't a downer cow. So says the gentleman who received it, Dave Louthan. You can watch him tell...

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Variant Of Mad Cow Disease May Be Transmitted By Blood Transfusions, According To Animal Study (Science Daily)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT

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Meet Satan’s towel boy, Ralph Nader, and other famous rabblerousers in a call for open debates (Scholars and Rogues)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:08:30 GMT

He’s the man who caused Sep. 11, war in the Gulf, a million Iraqi deaths and probably mad cow disease too. Of course I’m talking about evil incarnate, consumer advocate and political gadfly Ralph Nader. As evidenced in the comments to my piece on him way back when, he’s roundly feared and loathed by countless Democrats for supposedly helping George W. Bush, no matter how indirectly, steal the...

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Human Form Of Mad Cow Disease May Be More Prevalent Than Thought (Fanatic Cook)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:54:00 GMT

... food supply. The article has an alarmist quality to it, but it makes some credible points: Could Mad Cow Disease Already be Killing Thousands of Americans Every Year? The new thinking is that since some types of fatal dementia, notably Alzheimer's Disease (AD), have the same symptoms as the form of mad cow disease that occurs in humans (called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: vCJD),...

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Spanish woman and son could be first relatives to die of BSE (The Earth Times Online Newspaper)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:57:39 GMT

Madrid - The Spanish health authorities are investigating the death of a woman whose son died earlier of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), the human variant of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow disease, experts said Wednesday in Madrid...

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Sick deer in captivity in Kent County prompts quarantine (Detroit Free Press)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:17:00 GMT

A whitetail deer at a captive facility in Kent County has been confirmed to have chronic wasting disease. The fatal illness in its latter stages has symptoms similar to mad cow disease but affects only cervids like moose, elk and deer, state officials said Monday.

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We apologize again for the fault in this broadcast. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked. (OneFreeKorea)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:18:11 GMT

The shepherds of the mad sheep refuse to die quietly. MBC, which retracted its misleading report linking U.S. beef to mad cow disease under court order and apologized to its viewers, is now appealing that order. So if it’s now beyond serious dispute that the original report misled viewers with sloppy translations, bad science, and images of people [...]

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Science Etcetera, Saturnday 20080823 (ideonexus)

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:00:56 GMT

A delightful collection Julius Sumner Miller’s Why is It So? programs. Professor Julius Sumner Miller A court order has prevented researchers from showing how they hacked the Boston Subway to get free rides. Nervous tissue in beef is linked to the human version of Mad Cow Disease, researchers may be close to a test for identifying it in [...]

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Mexico Does What Our FDA Won't (RoguePundit)

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:14:16 GMT

Mexico is yet another nation that has more stringent safety standards when it comes to beef importation and mad cow disease than we do. Earlier this week, Mexico further tightened its regulations on the importation of Canadian cattle. Mexico will...

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American Women Angry Over Viking Sperm Drought (Riehl World View)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:11:07 GMT

It seems a fair - and possibly fair-haired - number of single American women seeking artificial insemination have a decided preference for Nordic sperm. Unfortunately, new guidelines designed to prevent the spread of Mad Cow disease are derailing them in...

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Mad Cow Disease Reported In Alberta (VitaBeat)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:20:01 GMT

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Friday that it has confirmed Canada's 14th case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy or mad cow disease. CFIA said in a statement that the mad cow disease was found in a six-year-old beef cow in Alberta, according to the Canadian Press.

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New mad-cow case found in Alberta beef cow (Globe and Mail)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT

A new case of mad-cow disease has been discovered in Alberta.The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says bovine spongiform encephalopathy was found in a six-year-old beef cow.

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There’s a ship in my onions (Mirabilis.ca)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:24:32 GMT

I found this article from 2001 while looking for something else altogether — isn’t that always the way? From the Telegraph’s archives: There’s a ship in my onions. Managing a farm in Europe these days is no easy task, with such problems as mad cow disease and severe flooding with which to to contend. Farmers in [...]

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New mad cow disease case found in Alberta (CBC.ca)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:00:06 GMT

A new case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, has been discovered in a six-year-old beef cow in Alberta, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Friday.

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Scientists working on test to protect food chain from human form of Mad Cow Disease (Flesh and Stone)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:20:00 GMT

Researchers at Kansas State University are developing a test for instantly detecting beef that has been contaminated with tissue from a cow's brain or spinal cord during slaughter — an advance in protecting against possible spread of the human form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or Mad Cow Disease. The test would be the first of its kind. The research, done in...

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"I eat you": A cannibal greeting (Neurophilosophy)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:31:11 GMT

Here's a nice follow-up to my article about prion diseases . It's an excerpt from the first chapter of a 1997 book called Deadly Feasts: The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health , by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Rhodes . The book documents the work of Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, the American physician who provided the first description of kuru. Gajdusek travelled...

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Scandanavian Swimmers In Short Supply [Jizz Is As Jizz Does] (Jezebel)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:30:00 GMT

A decade ago, the Food and Drug Administration restricted the importation of human sperm from Europe due to fears about the transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (a.k.a., mad cow disease). In the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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US Blocks Import of European Sperm (Drudge Retort)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:29:00 GMT

Since May 2005, the United States has restricted sperm banks from importing from Europe for fear it might spread Mad Cow disease, prompting a shortage of well-educated Nordic semen. "We have just a few crumbs left," said Claus Rodgaard of Cryos Internationa, who has a waiting list of 100 for sperm from donors nicknamed Dane, Finn and Oluf.

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U.S. Totally Out Of European Sperm (Radar)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:01:58 GMT

Did you know that in 2005, the U.S. barred the importing of European sperm? This is apparently due to concerns about mad cow disease, despite the fact that there are zero documented cases of mad cow from insemination, or through sex at all. And both in

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