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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or Mad Cow Disease
Mad Cow Disease : Are We Safe
"Mad cow disease" or bovine spongiform encephalopathy: Scientific and regulatory issues (CRS report for Congress) by Judith A Johnson, 1997
Epeidemics Deadly Diseases Throughout History Mad Cow Disease: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
Mad Cow Disease and Related Spongiform Encephalopathies by David (EDT) Harris, 1980
THE TREMBLING MOUNTIAN a Personal Account of Kuru, Cannibals, and Mad Cow Disease by Robert KLITZMAN, 1998
Mad Cow Disease: Are Our Precautions Adequate?: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce, and Tourism of t
Mad Cow Disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) by Carmen Ferreiro, 2004-10-01
Mad cow disease: Are government efforts to protect the U.S. adequate? (CQ researcher) by Mary H Cooper, 2001
Mad, Mad, Mad Cow ; An Overview of the Mad Cow Disease
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, mad cow disease) (AS-1206) by Greg Lardy, 2001
Brain Trust: The Hidden Connection Between Mad Cow and Misdiagnosed Alzheimer's Disease by Colm A. Kelleher, 2004-10-19
Alzheimers Disease&genetc Test&mad Cows& Pk
Brain Trust The Hidden Connection Between Mad Cow and Misdiagnosed Alzheimers Disease 2004 publication. by Colm AKlhr, 2004

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NPR : Unraveling Mad Cow Disease
mad cow disease and related illness are thought to be spread by an infectious protein, not a germ. But some prominent scientists don t agree.
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1678545
USDA BSE Information Page
United States Department of Agriculture offers updates on mad cow disease.
http://www.usda.gov/BSE/

Extractions: You are here: Home document.write(mw_crumbs_notitle("",""," ")) Your browser does not support JavaScript. Please update your browser. Transcript of Technical Briefing with Bill Hawks, Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Services, Dr.Elsa Murano, Under Secretary for Food Safety, Dr. Ron DeHaven, Administration, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, Dr. Barbara Masters, Acting Administrator, Food Safety Inspection Service Transcript of Technical Briefing with Bill Hawks, Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Services, Dr.Elsa Murano, Under Secretary for Food Safety, Dr. Ron DeHaven, Administration, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, Dr. Barbara Masters, Acting Administrator, Food Safety Inspection Service - Washington D.C.
Compassion Over Killing > Mad Cow Disease In The United States
mad cow disease in the United States. Introduction. December mad cow disease is only one reason among many to eat vegetarian fare. Being
http://www.cok.net/lit/madcow.php

Extractions: Other COK Sites TryVeg.com ChickenIndustry.com EggScam.com member.cok.net VegDC.com The USDA, headed by former beef industry lobbyist Ann Veneman, claims the 1997 ban on feeding ruminants (cattle and sheep) to other ruminants should be enough to protect U.S. consumers from the risk of mad cow disease. However, a 2001 investigation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reported that literally hundreds of feed suppliers violated the ban and found that at least 1,200 feed suppliers had not even been identified nor inspected. What action did the FDA take when learning that hundreds of American feed suppliers were not in compliance with the ban that was to keep mad cow disease risk low in the United States? Virtually nothing. The FDA has done little to enforce the ban, even when it knows a supplier is violating it. In 2002, the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, issued a report on the U.S. mad cow disease risk, stating: FDA has no clear enforcement strategy for dealing with firms that do not obey the feed ban, and it does not know what, if any, enforcement actions the states may be taking.
CNN.com - Italy Denies Report That Man Died Of Mad Cow Disease - July 28, 2000
http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/07/28/italy.mad.cow.reut/index.html
IATP | Ag Observatory
A listing of mad cow disease (BSE) headlines, documents and other resources available from Ag Observatory and other Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
http://www.agobservatory.org/madcow/index.cfm

Extractions: Date Published USDA Responds to Mix Up on Canadian Beef May 24, 2004 FDA Not Yet Ready to Announce Mad Cow Feed Rules May 21, 2004 USDA Messed Up, Fessed Up May 21, 2004 Scientists Fear Hidden epidemic of vCJD May 21, 2004 Conrad asks President for Venemans Resignation May 20, 2004 USDA Allowed Canadian Beef In Despite Ban May 20, 2004 Press Statement by Dr. Peter Fernandez Chairman, US BSE Technical Working May 19, 2004 Cargill executive predicts end of Japan's beef ban May 18, 2004 State Finds No Creutzfeldt-Jakob Cluster; Resident Disagrees May 7, 2004 Calls for Federal Inquiry Over Untested Cow May 6, 2004 U.S. Confirms A Failure to Use Mad-Cow Test May 4, 2004 VENEMAN ANNOUNCES FRAMEWORK AND FUNDING FOR NATIONAL Apr 27, 2004 Senator Cantwell Calls on Bush Administration to Keep Promise to Close Loopholes in Mad Cow Rules Apr 19, 2004 Economic Impact Analysis Of Bse Regulations Apr 7, 2004
CNN.com - Denmark Investigates 'mad Cow' Disease Case - February 28, 2000
http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/02/28/denmark.mad.cow/index.html
The Seattle Times: Local News: Mad-cow Disease Hits State; Feds Say Beef 'absolu
Stocks in meatpacking companies and restaurant chains fell quickly today as investors reacted to the first reported case of mad cow disease in the United
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001822407_madcow24.html

Extractions: What you need to know about this disease Consumer suit aims to stop use of ill cows Timeline: The worldwide spread of 'mad-cow' disease News of quarantine stuns, angers, scares Mabton-area farmers ... Commenting on 'mad-cow' A Holstein dairy cow from a small farm near Yakima is the nation's first probable case of "mad-cow" disease, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said yesterday, hastening to reassure Americans that the risk of contracting the brain-wasting disease is minuscule. "Despite the finding, we remain confident in the safety of our food supply," Veneman said. "I do not hesitate to recommend to anyone that beef is absolutely safe to eat." But the news, which hit as many Americans were shopping for their Christmas roasts, could prove devastating to the nation's $175-billion beef industry.
Oprah's Report On Mad Cow Disease
Oprah s report on mad cow disease. April 15th, 1996. Show transcript. mad cow disease, it s a medical mystery spreading panic across the Atlantic.
http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/television/oprah_transcript.html

Extractions: Oprah's report on Mad Cow Disease April 15th, 1996 Show transcript Mad Cow Disease, it's a medical mystery spreading panic across the Atlantic. In England, 10 puzzling deaths of young people in recent years may be linked to a rare and fatal brain disorder in cattle. British scientists believe the victims may have eaten diseased beef, as many as 10 years ago. The afflicted cattle shake and contort like mad dogs before what must be an excruciating and inevitable death. In human beings, dementia and paralysis precede death. Scientists speculate that cattle contract the disease by feeding on sheep parts that are infected with another disease. A practice officially banned in England in 1989. The disease can take years to develop. McDonald's and Burger King in England have stopped selling British beef. Europe has refused to import it and now Britain will destroy 4.7 million older cows that may have fed sheep parts. The scare is turning a nation of beef eaters away from their favorite food. Could it happen here? American officials say no, but so did the British government until last month. Though the link between cattle and humans has not been definitively proven, and there's no test for Mad Cow Disease, the fear it has generated may destroy an industry and dramaticall alter the way we eat. Participants:
Mad Cow Homepage
Does Your Cow Have mad cow disease? by Dr. Pundit Gainsay. In 1996 bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or Mad Cow disease caused
http://www.yuksrus.com/madcow.html

Extractions: Does Your Cow Have Mad Cow Disease? In 1996 bovine spongiform encephalopathy (B.S.E.), or "Mad Cow" disease caused the unfortunate slaughter of 11 million Head of British Cattle. It will forever be known as the "Herd Shot Round the World." To help prevent another outbreak of Mad Cow Disease we ask you to monitor your cows for any of the following symptoms listed below. If your cow displays any of the following symptoms we suggest you try the chicken instead... 1) Your cow insists on wearing a little steak sauce behind each ear as cologne. 2) She refuses to let you milk her, saying "Not on the first date." 3) Your cow takes up painting and cuts off one of its ears. 4) Your cow gets a silicon implant for her udder. 5) Your cow appears on Oprah, claiming to be a horse trapped in a cow's body. 6) Your cow demands to be branded with the 'Golden Archs Logo'. 7) Your cow insists that all Hindus are sacred. 8) Your cow thought Bruce Seldon would beat Mike Tyson. 9) Your cow insists evaporated milk comes from thirsty cows. 10) Your cow quits the family dairy business and applies for a job at Burger King.
UDDER DENIAL Or WHY MAD COW DISEASE MAY BE IN YOUR FRIDGE TODAY
UDDER DENIAL or WHY mad cow disease MAY BE IN YOUR FRIDGE TODAY. GO back to HOME PAGE. mad cow disease is nature s last laugh on mammaleat-mammal mankind.
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~astrology/udder.htm

Extractions: UDDER DENIAL or WHY MAD COW DISEASE MAY BE IN YOUR FRIDGE TODAY GO back to HOME PAGE Mad-Cow has to be the most intriguing fatal disease on the planet. Imagine the scenario: you're walking along eating this hamburger, not knowing that as you munch, alien invaders are climbing out of the meat, through your tongue, bouncing like happy, yellow pac-men toward your brain which THEY will eat the way you're inhaling that burger. You don't know you're infected so you get married and have a child-who, you guessed it, is born with the Satan bug pre-loaded, already munching away at his brain. The truth about Mad Cow is so horrific nothing is taught about it in med schools. Until a year ago, most scientists knew Jack in the Box about it-(malady originally found in cannibals but mysteriously, at times seemingly spontaneously in non -cannibals)which was probably for the best. If doctors had known any more, med students would have realized they had no more than five or ten years to live, quit school and spent their last years surfing Tahiti. A lot of people would have you believe only Mad-Cow and Englishmen go out in the Noon day sun.
Mad Cow Disease
mad cow disease Archives. What Canadians Need to Know About mad cow disease What Is mad cow disease? Is Canada Safe From mad cow disease?
http://www.healthcoalition.ca/bse.html

Extractions: What Canadians Need to Know About Mad Cow Disease Mad Cow disease, or its scientific name Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), is a fatal brain-wasting disease in cattle which was first identified in the United Kingdom (UK) in 1986. The disease has an incubation period lasting 4-7 years, but ultimately is fatal for cattle within weeks of its onset.(1) BSE is one of a number of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs) - a family of diseases in humans and animals which are characterized by sponge-like lesions in the brain. Other examples of TSEs are found in sheep, deer, elk, mink and even the feline species. In deer and elk, TSE is commonly referred to as "Chronic Wasting Disease" and in sheep the disease is known as "scrapie." It is widely believed that cattle in Britain developed BSE as a result of being fed the rendered carcasses of dead sheep that were infected with scrapie. There is a great deal of speculation as to the original cause of Mad Cow disease. According to the widely-held "prion theory", the BSE agent is composed largely, if not entirely, of a self-replicating protein referred to as a "prion." Another theory suggests that the agent is virus-like and possesses nucleic acids which carry information. Strong evidence collected over the past decade supports the prion theory, but the ability of the BSE agent to form multiple strains is more easily explained by a virus-like agent. Epidemiological studies conducted in the UK suggest it is spread through cattle feed prepared from carcasses of other ruminants - any of a group of even-toed, hoofed, cud-chewing mammals, including cattle, deer, and elk. No one knows for sure how the first cow (or cows) got BSE, but we know it spread throughout Britain and eventually the world through the cannibalistic practice of making cattle feed out of the bits of cattle (offal) that are not fed to humans. Like a "chain-letter", offal from a Mad Cow infected many more cattle and offal of those cattle infected many more.
Guardian Unlimited | Special Reports | First Case Of Mad Cow Disease In US
First case of mad cow disease in US Julian Borger in Washington Wednesday December 24, 2003 The Guardian The US government was yesterday scrambling to calm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/bse/article/0,2763,1112575,00.html

Extractions: Sign in Register Go to: Guardian Unlimited home UK news World news Archive search Arts Books Business EducationGuardian.co.uk Film Football Jobs Life MediaGuardian.co.uk Money The Observer Online Politics Shopping SocietyGuardian.co.uk Sport Talk Travel Audio Email services Special reports The Guardian The weblog The informer The northerner The wrap Advertising guide Crossword Dating Headline service Syndication services Events / offers Help / contacts Information Living our values Newsroom Reader Offers Style guide Travel offers TV listings Weather Web guides Working at GNL Guardian Weekly Money Observer Home UK Business Online ... Quiz The US government was yesterday scrambling to calm public fears over its food supply after America's first recorded case of mad cow disease was found in a sick animal in Washington state. Ann Veneman, agriculture secretary, said the positive test for BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) was "presumptive" and would be confirmed in a British laboratory. But she said the administration was confident that the finding was accurate and had already implemented measures to curb its spreading.
Organophosphates And Mad Cow Disease
Organophosphates Implicated In mad cow disease Coverup Insecticide causes Mad Cows nvCJD. by Fintan Dunne. Research Kathy Mc Mahon.
http://www.cqs.com/opmadcow.htm

Extractions: Organophosphates Implicated In Mad Cow Disease by Fintan Dunne Research Kathy Mc Mahon If Mark Purdey is right we are in big trouble. We are destroying our brains with insecticides. His groundbreaking research into the cause of BSE in cattle and new variant CJD in humans, has been sidelined by United Kingdom officials. They attribute both diseases to ingestion of prion protein found in contaminated beef. But Purdey has evidence the government's anti-parasite campaigns unleashed a chemical holocaust for cattle resulting in BSE, and that human CJD is accelerated by the same chemical effects. Could a chemical be that deadly? For fear of attack by Saddam Hussein, most Israeli hospitals have antidotes to a deadly nerve gas developed by Nazi chemists which contains organophosphate (OP) the same compound found in the insecticides suspected of driving BSE and CJD. The vast bulk of the cattle found staggering around in British fields with their brains burned out, have been treated for warble-fly with a constituent of nerve gas. The CJD and BSE symptoms also mirror 'manganese madness', an irreversible fatal neuro-psychiatric degenerative syndrome that plagued manganese miners in the first half of the last century. Could manganese and organophosphate be causing these diseases?
Mad Cow Disease (Harpers.org)
Harper s Magazine. mad cow disease. Sources. Events Related To mad cow disease. USDA officials said that there was no need to
http://www.harpers.org/MadCowDisease.html

Extractions: Aug 1 A British Health Department bulletin revealed that fourteen Britons have died of mad cow disease so far this year; scientists have said that 500,000 people could die of the disease by 2030. A family of Vermont sheep farmers vowed to prevent the government from slaughtering their flock of Belgian dairy sheep; four sheep descended from the flock tested positive for an ovine form of mad cow disease Week of Nov 7 People in Galway, Ireland, dug up the carcass of a mad cow and placed it in the owner's farmyard; burying a cow suffering from bovine spongiform encephalapathy could contaminate ground water with the prions that apparently cause the disease Scientists warned again that chronic wasting disease , a type of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy infecting deer and elk in the American West, can probably be transmitted to humans, much like its cousin mad cow disease ; up to half the deer in some areas are infected with the disease.
Www-ed.fnal.gov/linc/projects/FoxP/foodpres.htm
Mad Cow USA Disinfopedia mad cow disease was first identified in the United States on 23 December 2003 Official mad cow disease Web Site, last updated June 18, 2001.
http://www-ed.fnal.gov/linc/projects/FoxP/foodpres.htm

Extractions: PURPOSE/GOAL : To use resource based learning to research mad cow disease, a complex, current, real world problem. To integrate critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills into the Food Science curriculum with emphasis on evaluation of information retrieved. The Food Science course meets the four Illinois state science goals for learning. CONTEXT/SETTING/ENVIRONMENT : Fenton High School is a suburban Chicago high school with 100 faculty members, serving a population of about 1300 very diverse learners. Thirty percent of the students belong to minority groups and 5% have limited English proficiency. Over 13% are identified as below poverty level and receive free lunch services. Nine percent of the students at Fenton are identified as Special Education. The Fenton High School strategic plan acknowledges the need to infuse our curriculum with opportunities for students to learn critical thinking skills, problem solving, and communication skills. This project is part of "Success is on the Menu," a five year project funded by the Illinois State Board of Education and the Illinois State Library.
Mad Cow Disease - Disinfopedia
mad cow disease. Also First identified in Britain in 1985, mad cow disease developed over the years into a frightening crisis. Several
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Mad_cow_disease
Dog Food May Carry "Mad Cow Disease"
Click Here. Dog Food May Carry mad cow disease . May 26, 2003 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports that a Canadian cow
http://consumeraffairs.com/news03/dog_food.html

Extractions: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports that a Canadian cow that tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, also known as mad cow disease) may have been used to manufacture dry dog food, some of which was reported to have been shipped to the United States. The Canadian government prevented the BSE positive cow from being processed for human food. The FDA noted that there is no scientific evidence to date that dogs can contract BSE or any similar disease. In addition there is no evidence that dogs can transmit the disease to humans. FDA notified the U.S. pet food firm, The Pet Pantry International, of Carson City, Nevada, when FDA learned that the pet food that the firm received may have included rendered material from the BSE positive cow. The manufacturer of the pet food is Champion Pet Food, Morinville, Alberta. Even though there is no known risk to dogs from eating this dog food, as a prudent measure to help assure that the U.S. stays BSE free The Pet Pantry International is asking its customers who may have purchased the suspect product to hold it for pickup by the distributor so that the dog food will not mistakenly be mixed into cattle or other feeds if any of the dog food is discarded. The suspect dog food was produced by Champion Pet Food between February 4, 2003, and March 12, 2003.
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
(Redirected from mad cow disease). (Lyman and Oprah Winfrey were sued for discussing this book); mad cow disease Plague of the 21st Century?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_cow_disease

Extractions: (Redirected from Mad cow disease Bovine spongiform encephalopathy BSE or more commonly mad cow disease ) is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle , which is transmissible to humans. Misshaped prion proteins cause the degeneration and spread the disease between individuals. Very rarely BSE may arise spontaneously, but more often it spreads in epidemic fashion. Spontaneous disease arises in animals that carry a rare mutant prion allele , which expresses prions that contort by themselves into the disease-causing shape . Transmission of BSE occurs when healthy animals consume tainted tissues from others with the disease. Practices recently banned in many countries allowed this to occur. Epidemics in cattle are believed to have originated in sheep , in which the related prion disease scrapie is common. The tissues that contain most of the pathogenic molecules are those of the brain and the nervous system , although contagious amounts appear sometimes to be present in the blood. In the brain, these proteins form plaques, which lead to the appearance of holes in the brain, degeneration of mental abilities and death. Following an epidemic of BSE in Britain, 152 people (as of 2003) acquired and died of a more or less identical disease. For many of them, direct evidence exists that they had consumed tainted beef, and so this is assumed to be how all the individuals contracted it. Disease incidence also appears to correlate with slaughtering practices that led to the contamination of hamburger and other beef with nervous system tissue. The human disease was designated
Dennis Kucinich For President, 2004 - Mad Cow Disease
SEARCH TOLL FREE (866) 4133664. mad cow disease. PDF. The unfortunate discovery of a dairy cow in Washington State infected with
http://www.kucinich.us/issues/madcow.php

Extractions: TOLL FREE: PDF The unfortunate discovery of a dairy cow in Washington State infected with Mad Cow Disease, or BSE, is a result of irresponsible U.S. agricultural policies. BSE in the United States is preventable, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture (UDSA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must do more to protect American consumers. Last year, the USDA tested only 19,990 cattle believed to be at risk for Mad Cow Disease, out of a population of about 96 million or 1 out of every 5,000 cattle. By contrast in Europe, every single animal above a given age gets tested for this fatal brain-wasting disease (one out of every four cattle). USDA argues that there is no risk to humans because slaughterhouses are required to remove all central nervous system (CNS) tissue from sick cattle. This tissue is where BSE is found and can infect humans if eaten. However, removing this tissue is rarely completely effective. USDA's own studies found that 35 percent of advanced meat recovery product tested was contaminated with CNS tissue. While the USDA-sponsored Harvard risk assessment of BSE in the U.S. noted that compliance with FDA's 1997 BSE feed rule is the most important factor in preventing a BSE outbreak, it is clear that this rule is not being rigorously enforced. Two GAO reports have shown how lax FDA has been in ensuring compliance with the feed rule. The first GAO report published some three years after the BSE feed rule went into effect found fairly widespread non-compliance. The 2002 GAO report found no improvement and found that the FDA compliance data was unreliable.
MSNBC - Mad Cow In The U.S. Front Page
Thousands more mad cow cases possible While official numbers show human cases of mad cow disease have been tapering off, new research published Friday
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3849231/

Extractions: On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will launch its testing program for mad cow disease. It believes its plan will find out for sure if the fatal illness is present in other U.S. cattle. Critics believe the effort falls far short. FULL STORY Jon Bonne / MSNBC.com Firm develops human mad-cow test

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