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  1. One year later, still looking to resolve BSE issues.(Bovine spongiform encephalopathy): An article from: Pro Farmer
  2. FAO says better controls and surveillance needed to protect consumers from BSE.(Food and Agriculture Organization)(Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Mad ... An article from: Food & Drink Weekly
  3. Johann's announces BSE roundtable; lays out impacts of closed border.(Mike Johanns)(Bovine spongiform encephalopathy): An article from: Food & Drink Weekly
  4. Veneman says more U.S. cases of BSE; FDA's BSE safety rules to be released later this month.(Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Food and Drug Administration): An article from: Food & Drink Weekly
  5. Bovine Diseases: Cowpox, Bluetongue Disease, Anthrax, Q Fever, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Foot-And-Mouth Disease, Leptospirosis, Bloat
  6. Latest Canadian BSE discovery puts border opening in jeopardy.(Bovine spongiform encephalopathy): An article from: Food & Drink Weekly
  7. 21st Century Complete Guide to Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) - Mad Cow Disease by U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA, 2003-12-29
  8. Alberta Selects TeSeE BSE Test.(Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy)(Brief Article): An article from: Food Ingredient News
  9. Market reaction to new Canadian BSE case fairly muted.(Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy): An article from: Food & Drink Weekly by Gale Reference Team, 2005-01-10
  10. Mad cow mania: the ultimate fallout from the first case of BSE in the United States remains uncertain.(bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)): An article from: Dairy Today by Steve Cornett, Jim Dickrell, et all 2004-01-01
  11. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or Mad Cow Disease
  12. Review of the USDA's Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Response: Hearing Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eig by United States, 2004-01
  13. USDA ends BSE investigation with no further discoveries.(United States Department of Agriculture)(Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy): An article from: Food & Drink Weekly
  14. BSE ("mad cow disease"): a brief overview.(bovine spongiform encephalopathy)(Report): An article from: Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs by Geoffrey S. Becker, 2005-12-01

41. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) And Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
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What is BSE?
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as "mad cow disease", is a fatal brain disease that affects cattle. The disease is named after the characteristic sponge-like changes to the brain that it causes. BSE usually has an incubation period of 4-5 years from the time that the animal is exposed. The condition is fatal within weeks or months of its onset. The first signs are weight loss and nervousness. BSE is one type of a group of prion diseases referred to as Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs). TSEs are fatal diseases that cause spongy degeneration of the brain and severe neurological symptoms. Another example of a TSE is scrapie, a disease found in sheep and goats. TSEs have also been found in other animals including mink, North American mule deer, elk and cats. TSE's found in humans include Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (CJD) and variant-Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (vCJD). What causes BSE?

42. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE; Mad Cow Disease)
bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE; Mad Cow Disease), What is BSE? Howis BSE spread? bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE; Mad Cow Disease).
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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy 
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AS-1206 (Revised), March 2004 Greg Lardy, Ph.D. Beef Cattle Specialist, NDSU Extension Service
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What is BSE?
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a disease condition in cattle which is thought to have originated in Great Britain. It occurs in cattle between two and eight years old and is always fatal. The most plausible cause of the disease is a prion, a "self-replicating" protein, rather than a bacterium or virus. BSE causes a portion of the brain to become sponge-like. Brain, central nervous system tissue, and the distal ileum (portion of the small intestine) can carry the infective agent, and measures have been taken to exclude those parts known to carry the infective agent (primarily brain and central nervous system tissue) from the food and feed supply. BSE is often referred to as "mad cow" disease, because animals infected with the disease are often irritable and can react in a somewhat violent or threatening fashion when approached by humans.

43. Mad Cow Disease And Cjd
current news on prions, mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE),scrapie, CreutzfeldtJakob Disease (CJD and nvCJD), kuru,and chronic wasting
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44. Entrez PubMed
bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Holt TA, Phillips J. St James Hospital,London. MeSH Terms Animals; Brain; Brain Diseases/transmission
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45. Entrez PubMed
The risk of bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( mad cow disease )to human health. Brown P. Laboratory of Central Nervous System
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46. Healthfinder® — Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
These guidelines are designed to prevent the establishment and spread in the USof bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the disease commonly known as.
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    bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) (Mad Cow Disease). Bovine SpongiformEncephalopathy (BSE) was first diagnosed in Great Britain in 1986.
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    Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
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    On 23 December 2003, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported the first suspected case of BSE within the United States in Washington State. This case was from a “downer” Holstein cow (unable to rise and walk on its own), and samples were collected at slaughter on 9 December 2003 as part of the USDA’s routine surveillance program for BSE. Final confirmation is being determined in the United Kingdom and results will be released within 3-5 days. USDA officials are investigating the origin of the animal and how its remains were processed. The farm where the cow first showed clinical signs was identified and has been quarantined.
    The potential for this to be a terrorist event is very remote. The BSE agent is not highly infectious and requires consumption of the material by the cow. Following exposure, the incubation period before any clinical signs or symptoms would develop is from 2 to 8 years.
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    49. "Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) And Other Animal Related Transmissible S
    bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and Other Animal Related TransmissibleSpongiform Encephalopathies. Updates bovine spongiform encephalopathy, 1990
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    An Introduction to BSE and other TSEs
    There are also human conditions that are similar to the animal diseases. In most cases the human diseases are not due to transmissible agents. They can be genetic diseases that run in families, a mutation that happens sporadically in individuals and probably animals as well, or they may be transmitted by ingestion of the infectious agent (e.g. kuru of the Fore people was caused by ritualized cannibalism). There is still some controversy regarding the nature of the transmissible agent that causes these fatal conditions, but the most accepted theory is that the agent is a modified form of a normal cell surface component known as a prion (proteinaceous infectious articles and (pronounced preeon) protein) (PrP). This modified version of PrP is disease causing, and is both less soluble and more resistant to enzyme degradation then the normal protein. "Currently there is no known treatment for prion diseases, and the fear that prions passed from cattle to humans may be justified."

    50. Www.foodsafety.gov - Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
    bovine spongiform encephalopathy Mad Cow Disease . Federal Government Web Sites. InternationalWeb Sites. bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) (WHO).
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    51. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, Or 'mad Cow Disease')
    bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or mad cow disease ). The followinglinks are to information from a wide variety of sources on BSE.
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    52. Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform
    Inquiry was set up in December 1997 by the government, which aims to investigatethe emergence and identification of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and
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    Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform / epidemiology Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform / transmission broader: Prion Diseases other: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome
    Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform
    DEFRA BSE information A collection of imformation on BSE in cattle provided by DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), formerly MAFF. Included are press releases and a bibliography of mainly government publications in this area. Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome UK Creutzfeldt-Jakob Surveillance Unit The incidence of CJD is monitored in the UK by the CJD Surveillance Unit at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh. This site summarises the research in progress at the Unit and provides some background information on CJD and other human spongiform encephalopathies, also providing links to other resources. Features include statistics on CJD in the UK and Europe, the Annual Report and list of publications of the Unit. Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform

    53. MD Travel Health - Variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob Disease
    Variant CreutzfeldtJakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( mad cowdisease ). ©2004 MDtravelhealth.com. bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
    http://www.mdtravelhealth.com/infectious/mad_cow_disease.html
    Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad cow disease") Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a degenerative neurologic disease acquired by eating beef from cows with a related illness known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) ("mad cow disease"). The disorder was initially described in the United Kingdom. As of February 2003, there were 129 definite or probable cases of variant CJD reported from the United Kingdom, six from France, and two from the Republic of Ireland. "Mad cow disease" has also been identified in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Israel, and Japan, but human cases have not been reported from these countries to date. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy appears to be caused by abnormal proteins called prions, which do not resemble bacteria, viruses, or other conventional causes of human and animal disease. The agent that causes BSE is transmitted when meat and bone meal feed prepared from the carcasses of infected animals is fed back to other cattle. (This practice has been banned within the European Union and many other countries). The infection is not transmitted directly from animal to animal within herds. A new case of BSE arising within a country is therefore much more significant than an imported case, because it implies that recycled ruminant protein is still being used within that country as animal feed, against all current recommendations.

    54. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) In Sheep?
    bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) In Sheep? Information about viewingPDF files . New Zealand is free from both BSE and scrapie.
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    Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) In Sheep?
    Information about viewing PDF files New Zealand is free from both BSE and scrapie. MAF risk assessments, reviewed and endorsed by the government's independent BSE Expert Science Panel, concluded that the Scrapie Freedom Assurance Programmes (SFAPs), under which sheep have been imported to New Zealand since the mid-1980s, provide firm guarantees against the introduction of either of the TSEs. The SFAPs involve testing for infection by biosassay, embryos transfers, and prolonged quarantine.
    Summary
    The spectre of BSE in sheep is worrying. European sheep were probably exposed to rations containing meat and bone meal(MBM) several years ago. Experimentally it has been shown that sheep can be infected by mouth with BSE. There is no immediately obvious measure that could be taken, such as removal Specified Risk Materials (SRMs), to adequately protect public health should BSE be found to be in the European sheep population.
    Background
    The clinical signs of BSE in the sheep are indistinguishable from those of scrapie. The two diseases can only be distinguished on the basis of bioassay in mice and lesion profiling. The British have been looking for it by taking brains from scrapie cases, inoculating them into mice and then looking for the incubation period and so-called "lesion profile" indicative of BSE. There are, however, two problems with this approach. The first is cost. To profile a single isolate in mice costs around £20,000. They have about 200 isolates underway at present. The second difficulty is time; it takes up to two years to run a single lesion profile study.

    55. Prion Diseases
    BSE. bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE, mad cow disease . Kuru, tissue.bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or Mad Cow Disease . An
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  • Prion-like proteins may not always be harmful.
    Prion Diseases
    These diseases
    • are transmissible - from host to host of a single species and, sometimes, even from one species to another (such as a laboratory animal)
    • destroy brain tissue giving it a spongy appearance
    For these reasons, prion diseases are also called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies or TSE s.
    Some examples: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease CJD humans variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease vCJD humans; acquired from cattle with BSE Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy BSE "mad cow disease" Kuru infectious; in humans who practiced cannibalism in Papua New Guinea GSS inherited disease of humans Fatal Familial Insomnia FFI inherited disease of humans Scrapie infectious disease of sheep and goats other animal TSEs cats, mink, elk, mule deer Before the victim dies of a TSE, the damage to the brain is reflected in such signs as loss of coordination and - in humans - dementia. Injections of ground-up brain tissue from an animal or human patient with a prion disease into another animal (of the appropriate species) transmits the disease. This suggests that the disease is caused by an infectious agent such as a virus. But viruses have a genome and - despite intense efforts - no evidence of a virus has ever been found in these brain extracts. In fact, treating the extracts with agents (e.g., ultraviolet light ) that destroy DNA does not reduce their infectiousness.
  • 56. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Questions And Answers
    bovine spongiform encephalopathy Questions and Answers. Disease DiseaseInformation. What is bovine spongiform encephalopathy? Bovine
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    57. Canada-Alberta Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Recovery Program
    CanadaAlberta bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) Recovery Program.Alberta government s $100-million commitment to a national
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    58. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
    Iowa State University Extension. bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). AlsoKnown as Mad Cow Disease . Iowa State University Extension Resources.
    http://www.extension.iastate.edu/emms/bse/homepage.html
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    BSE Meetings for Meat Processors
    Iowa State University Meat Science Extension, the Iowa Meat Processors Association, and the Meat and Poulty Inspection Bureau of the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship are cosponsoring four meetings for Iowa meat processors to discuss new regtulations that USDA/FSIS has published to further enhance safeguards against BSE. See schedule and locations of the meetings to be held Feb. 10, 11, 12, and 21 in four Iowa cities.
    ISU BSE Program Available Online
    A TV broadcast bringing together experts from ISU Extension and the Iowa Beef Center originated Jan. 7 from the Extension 4-H Youth Building on the Iowa State University campus. Streaming audio and video versions of this program also are available from the University of Nebraska for viewing on your computer.

    59. Mad Cow Disease - What You Need To Know
    Mad Cow Disease. I am your Guide, From Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D., Your Guideto Chemistry. What You Need to Know About bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
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    60. MR MI Deployment Exposures - Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Mad Cow Disease)
    bovine spongiform encephalopathy (Mad Cow Disease). The recent casesof bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the United Kingdom
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    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Travel Advisory on BSE . In the advisory the CDC notes that the relative risk of becoming infected with vCJD is very small. They estimate that the chances of contracting vCJD is less than one in 10 billion servings, if at all. Additionally, there is a recently announced ban on blood donations from all persons who have lived for six months or longer in the United Kingdom between 1980 and 1996. Some service members and their families may be affected by this ban. This deferral was originally implemented as a precautionary measure to ensure the safety of the blood supply against the risk of contamination by BSE, because there is no known blood-screening test. Even though there is no evidence that vCJD or BSE can be transmitted through blood products, deferral will be continued as a precautionary preventive step. For more information on BSE and vCJD please visit the following sites: ArmyLINK News: Army Surgeon General Bans European Beef Food and Drug Administration Information Page on BSE National Center for Infectious Diseases BSE and CJD Information and Resources National Institute of Health CJD Fact Sheet ... U.S. Department of Agriculture Information Page on BSE

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