Mad Cow Disease

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government will tighten its so-called feed rule -- a primary defense against mad cow disease -- by banning cattle brains and spinal cords in animal feed, but stop short of measures such as excluding restaurant ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2005-10-04 13:24 - 0 comments

BRUSSELS (AFP) - European scientists have confirmed the first case of "mad cow" disease in another species, officials said, while playing down the risk from a condition linked to a horrific brain disease in humans. The European ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2005-01-28 14:29 - 0 comments

. LONDON (Reuters) - Britain extended restrictions on blood donations on Thursday after a second person was suspected of being infected with the human form of mad cow disease through a blood transfusion. The government announced what was ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2004-07-22 12:08 - 0 comments

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Agriculture Department will launch a nationwide review to make sure its stepped-up testing program for mad cow disease is being carried out properly, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said on Wednesday. The ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2004-07-14 11:38 - 0 comments

Jul 1, 2004 Author: Steve Mitchell Source: United Press International WASHINGTON, June 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Wednesday a cow that initially tested positive for mad cow disease has come back negative on follow-up ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2004-07-05 13:45 - 0 comments

H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer Thursday, July 1, 2004 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Agriculture Department is defending its decision to release results of preliminary tests that raise concern about a possible mad cow disease ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2004-07-02 12:31 - 0 comments

Fri May 21, 2004 By Patricia Reaney LONDON (Reuters) - Just as concerns were abating, research published on Friday suggests that the human form of mad cow disease in Britain could be more widespread than thought. Scientists have estimated ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2004-05-21 11:53 - 0 comments

Fri Apr 30, 2004 By Bob Burgdorfer and Richard Cowan CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture did not test a head of cattle in Texas that displayed central nervous symptoms even though such symptoms could be associated ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2004-05-03 12:32 - 0 comments

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japan cannot end its ban on imports of U.S beef before May unless the United States "implements the same measures as we do" to prevent mad cow disease, the Japanese agriculture minister said in a letter made public ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2004-04-06 12:02 - 0 comments

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 2004 (AP) Italian scientists have found a second form of mad cow disease that more closely resembles the human Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease than the usual cow form of the illness. The brain-wasting diseases BSE, known as mad ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2004-03-16 16:57 - 0 comments

Wed Mar 3, 2004 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Government investigators have opened a probe into the U.S. Department of Agriculture's surveillance and testing for mad cow disease, USDA Inspector General Phyllis Fong told Congress on Wednesday. ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2004-03-04 14:39 - 0 comments

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican agriculture officials will visit Washington on Thursday and Friday this week to evaluate U.S. progress on preventing the spread of mad cow disease, a senior official said.  Javier Trujillo, in charge of the ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2004-02-18 16:06 - 0 comments

By Roberta Rampton WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Canadian farmers may resort to killing and burying old cattle, now that a case of mad cow disease has pushed prices to pennies on the pound -- when buyers can be found at all, officials said on ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2003-08-22 18:28 - 0 comments

July 24, 2002 THE SUPPRESSION OF ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS By David Crowe The smoke and flames from funeral pyres for hundreds of thousands of British cows are fading into distant memory, but the fear of this disease affecting livestock or ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2002-08-21 10:11 - 0 comments