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There is a reason government officials are quick to defend the safety of the U.S. beef supply. Within hours of the first mad cow discovered in the U.S. in 2003, China, Mexico, Russia, Brazil, South Africa, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, South Korea and 90 other countries banned U.S. beef.
The search for rare prion diseases, whether genetic, sporadic, or potentially caused by eating meat from infected animals, could be curtailed beginning next year.
The country's prion disease surveillance center that looks for new brain disorders would lose all of its federal funding and cease operations under President Donald Trump's proposed fiscal 2018 budget.
New evidence on the potential of chronic wasting disease to infect people should bring a co-ordinated federal response, advises a former top Health Canada scientist.
Amid renewed concern about whether chronic wasting disease can jump from deer to people, a fatal human brain condition in the same family is showing up more often in Wisconsin and nationally.
Dr. Zabel and his colleagues are developing plans to burn plots of National Park Service land in Arkansas and Colorado. If the experiments turn out as the researchers hope, they will spare some elk and deer a gruesome death.
As pundits love to say, the optics were not good.
In fact, the recent stunt by Brazilian President Michel Temer in attempting to tamp down a corruption scandal involving his country’s meat inspection system bears a striking resemblance — hopefully with a different outcome — to the mad cow outbreak in Great Britain.
An Army Bomb Disposal team has made safe a suspect device that was discovered on open ground in a business park in Tullamore, Co Offaly.
A number of houses were evacuated for a time this afternoon as a precaution.
The Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was removed to a secure military installation for further examination. A garda investigation is underway.
Spain has reported a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly called mad cow disease, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) says.
The diseased cow belonged to a herd of 134 cattle on a farm near the city of Salamanca in the northwestern region of Castilla-Leon, according to a report issued on Friday to the OIE by Spain's ministry for agriculture, food and the environment.
A new case of mad cow disease was found in Spain, local media reported on Friday.
The Ministry of Agriculture had found a new case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy or mad cow disease, which does not pose a threat to the Spanish health system, according to the Europapress news agency.
A patient treated recently at Maine Medical Center in Portland has Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a fatal degenerative brain disorder caused by an infectious type of protein, the hospital said Friday.
