Mad Cow Disease News

Researchers may be moving closer to better treatments for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, better known as mad cow disease, and the related condition called Creutzfeldt Jakob disease.

Research on a "brain-eating tribe" may hold the key to understanding and even treating mad cow disease, according to The Daily Telegraph.

Main Category: CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease Also Included In: Neurology / Neuroscience ; Genetics Article Date: 20 Nov 2009 - 11:00 PST A community in Papua New Guinea that suffered a major epidemic of a CJD-like fatal brain disease called kuru has developed strong genetic resistance to the disease, according to new research by Medical Research ...

A new treatment route for bovine spongiform encephalopathy and its human form Creutzfeldt Jakob disease could be a step closer based on new results from scientists at the University of Leeds.

Yes, the ball is still in play although a distant memory for some with regard to the litigation filed in 2007 by R-CALF USA and 10 other plaintiffs against the U.S. Department of Agriculture's decision to allow into the U.S. older Canadian cattle born after March 1, 1999, and beef from Canadian cattle of all ages.

Villagers in the highlands of Papua New Guinea who ritualistically ate human brains but did not die of a brain disease called kuru have a genetic mutation that protects them, researchers said Wednesday.

Prions are causing fatal and infectious diseases of the nervous system, such as the mad cow disease , scrapie in sheep or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.

Laboratory tests ruled out mad cow disease in a 3-year-old Slovenian cow that died in September, the Slovenian Veterinary Administration said on Tuesday.

Neuherberg, November 17, 2009. The regulating protein Srebp2 drives cholesterol formation, which prions need for their propagation, in prion-infected neuronal cells.

Once the infectious prion reaches Taiwan, Taiwan will be more susceptible than perhaps anywhere else in the world to the spread of vCJD in humans.

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Thousands of Taiwanese Saturday marched in the capital Taipei to protest against the end of a six-year ban on the import of some types of US beef products- which they fear could spread the deadly mad cow disease.

The University of Wyoming soon will have a new expert on the proteins that cause chronic wasting disease.

Maggie Rae, director of public health in Wiltshire, said the death of 25-year-old Pewsey man Edward Peduzie from CJD should not cause people to worry.

DPP members display a poster in front of the Taipei City Government yesterday, asking Taipei City Mayor Hao Lung-bin to participate a rally which will be held this Saturday to protest against the government's policy to allow the unlimited import of U.S. beef.

As swine flu spreads, affecting nearly 6 million Americans by now, spreading fever and discomfort and creating long lines of people waiting for vaccine that's in short supply, reports say that scrutiny of large hog farming operations has slowed down, not speeded up.

BONE OF CONTENTION: A DPP spokesman displayed enlarged copies of the Taiwan-US deal and the South Korea-US deal and said Taiwan s was more relaxed By Jenny W. hsu STAFF REPORTER Saturday, Nov 07, 2009, Page 3 Taiwan s agreement to relax restrictions on imports of US beef is much laxer than that agreed between South Korea and the US, the Democratic ...

Controversy over the government s decision to relax restrictions on US beef imports is heating up.

Taiwan's Consumers' Foundation and a few other private non-profit organizations, including the Housewives' Association, are planning to propose a referendum on the importation of American beef and beef products that may by a one-in-a-billion chance cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy or mad cow disease.

The pork industry desperately wants you to believe "the Big Lie" about swine flu: That it can't infect pigs, and therefore it's perfectly safe to buy and eat lots and lots of pork products.