Irish vCJD case confirmed
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The first case to originate in the Irish Republic of the human form of mad cow disease is confirmed.
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Mike Waites Health Correspondent, SCIENTISTS have identified a new strain of vCJD which could strike people previously unaffected by the disease.
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A new outbreak of foot and mouth disease was confirmed in Britain on Wednesday and the European Union reimposed a ban on British meat exports.
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A case of foot-and-mouth disease was confirmed at a British farm Wednesday, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported. Officials did not immediately confirm the report.
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Japan confirmed Friday its first case of the human variant of mad cow disease after the death of a man believed to have contracted the fatal brain-wasting illness from eating infected beef in Britain.
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A fourth case of foot-and-mouth disease has been confirmed in the Egham area of Surrey, officials say.
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October 17, 2004 -- KINGSTON, NY - An autopsy on one of five Ulster County residents believed to have died from the brain disorder Creutzfeldt-Jakob&#39;s disease found the disease was not present in the woman&#39;s brain, her grieving father has revealed.
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A police investigation is under way after a man is found with serious head injuries in County Londonderry.
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Ireland has suffered its first homegrown case of the human form of mad cow disease, the government said Wednesday.
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A new case of foot-and-mouth disease was confirmed in cattle on a farm in southern England Friday, officials said.
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The father of a teenager with vCJD says his son is 'very stable' and no longer considered terminally ill.
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An expert warns vCJD could become endemic in the UK unless blood screening is introduced.
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The European Commission said on  Tuesday it was satisfied with investigations carried out by  Hungary into the origin of the lethal strain of H5N1 bird flu  found in that country and a possible link to a case in Britain.
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Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said Tuesday he has received the results of a long-awaited investigation into car bombings that claimed 33 lives on one day in 1974
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A NORTH Wales psychiatrist claimed to have been vindicated last night after an independent report backed his findings into Gulf War syndrome.
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Emory officials believe Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), an extremely rare degenerative disease, is the probable diagnosis of an Emory University Hospital patient following a brain biopsy, and are taking steps on the basis of that assumption.
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KUMAMOTO -- Japan&#39;s 12th case of mad cow disease has been confirmed in Kumamoto Prefecture. The discovery is the first case of the disease, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), discovered