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Germany declared officially free of bird flu  -  25 Mar 2008
Monsters and Critics.com...mad cow disease in cattle, was likely to be upgraded to the status of a country with a 'controlled' exposure to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).

Study looks at coping with BSE fallout  -  25 Mar 2008
Wetaskiwin Times Advertiser,Who could have foreseen that a single case of an Alberta cow diagnosed with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) back in May 2003 would cripple the

Iowans say beef industry safe overall  -  Mar 24, 2008
UI The Daily Iowan (subscription),The concern over an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy - often called mad-cow disease - comes after videos surfaced of California-based

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy  -  Mar 10, 2008
Inside Futures,The bull market clearly suffers from bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) - Mad Cow Disease. And don't get too close or you'll surely catch the human form

State Sides with Texas in Cattle Clash  -  Mar 24, 2008
California Farmer,As a result of the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy outbreak in December of 2003, the United States government has worked to reestablish trading protocols

Economists Find Differing Beef-Risk Perceptions Across Countries  -  Feb 28, 2008
CattleNetwork.com,Consumers in Mexico and Japan perceived a greater risk from bovine spongiform encephalopathy than from any other hazard researched.

New Case of Mad Cow Disease Detected in Canada  -  Feb 26, 2008
Voice of AmericaThe Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced Tuesday that a six-year-old dairy cow had been diagnosed with bovine spongiform encephalopathy - the disease

Canada says bad feed likely cause of mad cow case  -  Feb 26, 2008
Canada.com,...testing of animals deemed to be at greatest risk showed that cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in Canada were very rare and were not increasing.

Mad Cow Disease Resurfaces In Canada  -  Feb 27, 2008
eFluxMediaThe Ottawa-based CFIA said Tuesday that the disease, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, was discovered in a six-year-old dairy cow from the

Cornell Researchers Develop Breakthrough Technique for Diagnosing ...  -  Mar 10, 2008
Medi News Direct,Prions, composed exclusively of misfolded glycoproteins, cause a number of neurodegenerative diseases including the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE or

7-year jail term upheld for Hannan ex-chairman  -  Mar 4, 2008
The Daily Yomiuri,Mitsuru Asada, 69, was convicted of abusing the government's beef-buyback scheme introduced to deal with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad

Tests rule out BSE in cow in Slovenia  -  Mar 4, 2008
ReutersSlovenia, which in January took over the rotating six-month presidency of the EU, has so far registered eight cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy

Slovenia suspects new case of mad cow disease  -  Feb 29, 2008
ReutersThe administration said preliminary tests indicated bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a six-year-old cow from a farm in Slovenia.

Understanding Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and Prions  -  Mar 6, 2008
American Chronicle,Many people first learned of prions in the 1980s in the form of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) which is a prion disease in cattle.

Mexico lifts ban on Canadian cattle imports  -  Feb 23, 2008
ReutersMexico stopped importing beef and cattle from Canada following an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in 2003. (Reporting by Noel Randewich;

Digital Angel reports on livestock tagging progress  -  Feb 28, 2008
UsingRFID.com (subscription),...and quickly isolate any problem discovered in an animal from birth through slaughter and distribution, including Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).

Canada confirms new case of mad cow  -  Feb 26, 2008
Sioux Falls Argus Leader,The national monitoring program targets cattle most at risk for the disease also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy. They expect to detect a small

Slaughterhouse president acknowledges illegal slaughter of ill  -  Mar 21, 2008
High Plains Journal,...rules mostly ban such cows, known as downer cattle, because they pose a higher risk of causing infections, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

Meat import from mad-cow infected countries allowed  -  Feb 28, 2008
The News - International,ISLAMABAD: The government has lifted ban on the import of poultry and meat products from countries having mad-cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy-

Cannibalism may have killed Neanderthals  -  Feb 28, 2008
ABC Science Online,TSEs, of which mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy is one, have been around for possibly millions of years, Underdown says.

DJ LIVESTOCK HIGHLIGHTS: Top Stories Of The Day  -  Mar 21, 2008
Trading Markets (press release),Five years after the US first discovered bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease, Mexico still bans most US cattle and US government officials

Sheep and goats and TSE diseases  -  Mar 13, 2008
Journal-Advocate,By Michael Fisher Thanks at least in part to journalistic sensationalism, the most famous of these is probably bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).

The Winchester Star  -  Mar 21, 2008
The Winchester Star,...tonsils, brain, and spinal cord, all of which contain nervous tissue that might harbor BSE [Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, or "mad cow" disease].

Alberta dairy cow latest case of mad cow disease  -  Feb 26, 2008
Winnipeg Sun,The Ottawa-based agency says bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, was discovered in a six-year-old dairy cow from Alberta.

Health Highlights: March 15, 2008  -  Mar 15, 2008
Forbes,CJD is believed to occur in humans who have eaten beef from cattle with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), otherwise known as mad cow disease.

E. coli Spinach Outbreak Caused by Cows?  -  Mar 3, 2008
Mother Earth News,For instance, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, or more commonly, mad cow disease), has not been found in grass-fed animals.

US: Containers, Cargo Space For US Ag exports in tight supply  -  Mar 20, 2008
FreshPlaza,Beef shipments remain well below those of 2003 after the US' first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy was found in Washington state in December of

Humane Society sues USDA over torture  -  Mar 5, 2008
Daily Vidette,..."Downer cattle have between a 50 [percent] and 100 percent higher risk of being infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy," Michael Greger,

Statement by Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer Regarding ...  -  Mar 5, 2008
PR-USA.net (press release),It also includes the removal of specified risk materials-those tissues demonstrated to contain the bovine spongiform encephalopathy agent in infected

Bond: incidents should not affect beef trade  -  Feb 27, 2008
Brownfield,By the same token, Bond says the confirmation Tuesday of Canada’s twelfth bovine spongiform encephalopathy case should not prompt hasty changes in trade

US Beef Exports Up 25 Percent In '07, To Slow In '08: USDA  -  Mar 20, 2008
CattleNetwork.com,...with the gradual reopening of South Korea , Japan and other foreign markets once totally closed as a result of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in 2003.

New BSE case confirmed in Alberta  -  Feb 26, 2008
Feedstuffs,The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) today confirmed bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a six-year-old dairy cow from Alberta .

Officials can't repeat beef inspection crisis  -  Feb 24, 2008
News-Herald.com,Cows behaving this way could carry bovine spongiform encephalopathy or mad cow disease, according to animal experts. About 37 million pounds of beef went to

US Beef Exports To Japan Expected To Rise In '08: USMEF Official  -  Mar 13, 2008
CattleNetwork.com,US cattle completely, following the World Organization for Animal Health's blessing as a "controlled-risk" region for bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

Upton Sinclair, Now Playing on YouTube  -  Mar 11, 2008
New York Times,...(Cows so sick they can’t walk can’t legally be processed into food because they may have mad cow disease, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy,

K-State Economists Find 'Stark Differences' Between Countries ...  -  Feb 28, 2008
Kansas City infoZine,Then came the discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in North America in late 2003, which sparked consumer concerns that led to trade

How weak cows enter food chain  -  Mar 2, 2008
Chicago Tribune,The inability of a cow to stand is considered a symptom of mad cow, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), though cattle may go down for a number of

Yoshinoya to Resume 24-Hour "Gyudon" Sales by Aug.  -  Mar 12, 2008
Japan Corporate News (press release),...government's ban on US beef imports due to the discovery of the first US case of mad cow disease, formally called bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

Organic beef serves up more than dinner  -  Feb 28, 2008
North Platte Bulletin,That, plus the cattle’s strict vegetarian diet, ensured the animals have not been exposed to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly called mad-cow

Talking Business A Case of Abuse, Heightened  -  Mar 9, 2008
New York Times,...on their feet when they are slaughtered — are said to have an increased risk of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the dreaded mad cow disease.

Disparate Federal Rules in Spotlight  -  Mar 8, 2008
Washington Post,...after the 2003 discovery that a slaughtered downer cow in Washington state was infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease.

JBS Purchases Cause Further Beef Industry Concentration  -  Mar 5, 2008
CattleNetwork.com,...“The last thing the US cattle herd needs is to be lumped into a North American herd, what with Canada ’s BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) problems and

Critics say "don't test, don't find" is rule for mad cow disease  -  Mar 18, 2008
Scripps News,In response, the USDA boosted its testing for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), which is the scientific name for mad cow. The results -- two mad cow

R-CALF: MN, WI, SD Cattle Producers, Auction Yards Band Together  -  Mar 18, 2008
CattleNetwork.com,...(USDA’s) OTM (over-30-month) Rule to prevent the introduction of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) from Canada into the US cattle herd.

Panel presses for list of stores that got recalled beef  -  Mar 6, 2008
USA TodayThe rules are designed to ensure that cattle infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, do not enter the food supply.

Got Milk … er … Posilac?  -  Feb 28, 2008
Thought Leader,One prominent disease is mad cow — otherwise known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), a neurodegenerative disease caused by the force-feeding of

More Plagiarism, Same Times Reporter  -  Mar 5, 2008
Slate...which had argued that Canadian cows under 30 months of age did not pose a risk of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease.

Questions And Answers Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Co  -  Mar 5, 2008
PR-USA.net (press release),Q. How does USDA monitor the US cattle population for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)? A. USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)

Beef ban may impact Korean trade mission  -  Mar 17, 2008
Bismarck Farm & Ranch Guide,Citing fears over bovine spongiform encephalopathy, South Korea now bans the import of US beef, except for boneless meat from cattle younger than 30 months.

Too little testing for mad cow, critics say  -  Mar 13, 2008
Press-Enterprise,The case prompted the USDA to boost its testing for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), which is known as mad cow disease, a degenerative disease that

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