Britain: new findings point to larger outbreaks of vCJD mad cow disease
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UK scientists are upwardly revising their estimates of the number of people likely to die from new variant CJD (vCJD, also known as mad cow disease). It follows the death of a second patient, who contracted the disease after a ...
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Heading overseas first, where Japan has confirmed its twelfth case of BSE, or mad cow disease. Amy Bainbridge reports the latest case was detected in a five-year-old dairy cow, but there&#39;s been little consumer reaction to the news.
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WASHINGTON - Government scientists are trying to determine whether the country has a second case of mad cow disease. The US Agriculture Department announced yesterday that two rapid-screening tests on a suspect cow were positive for the disease.
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"The utmost priority is to cull the animals to control disease and to put movement control around so that reduces the risk of any further spread"  Authorities confirmed a new foot-and-mouth outbreak on the outskirts of London on Wednesday, just days after the government lifted livestock restrictions following the appearance of the devastating disease last month.The highly contagious disease was found in cattle grazing in Surrey, a county that borders London, and close to a laboratory that was linked to the August outbreak. The discovery created panic in farming communities that lost millions last month.'I'm really worried because I've got loads of pigs, a few cattle and horses, and we were getting the pigs ready for slaughter tomorrow,' said Andrew Parsons, a Surrey farmer. Read more
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Here&#39;s a news item on the discovery of a possible second case of mad cow disease in US cattle herds. If you find this article interesting, be sure to also read &#39;Hidden mad cow epidemic infected 300,000 cattle, says French government.
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A herd of cattle has tested positive for foot-and-mouth disease, the seventh case in Britain since an outbreak began in August, the agriculture ministry confirmed late Monday.
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Letters went out to 6,000 patients in Britain who may have been exposed to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease, through blood plasma products, officials said.
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Reuters is reporting that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has a possible second case of mad cow disease in the United States.
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A new outbreak of foot and mouth in Britain was caused by the same strain of virus as cases in August which was declared &quot;eradicated&quot; only last week, initial test results showed Thursday.
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Japanese health officials confirm their first case of variant CJD, the human form of mad cow disease.
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British government sources confirmed a suspected outbreak of foot and mouth disease on a cattle farm in southern England on Wednesday, according to reports on BBC and Sky television.
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Sep 24, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - United Kingdom health officials this week began telling several thousand Britons they may face a slightly increased risk of contracting variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) because they received blood products from
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Scientists are investigating the cause of the latest foot-and-mouth outbreak at two farms in Surrey.
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A laboratory has found the Bluetongue virus in a cow in eastern England, the agriculture ministry said on Saturday, the first case in Britain and a fresh setback for the country's farming industry.
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Eating BSE-infected meat could lead to people developing different types of CJD, researchers have suggested.
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba  - A final laboratory test has  confirmed an Alberta dairy cow had mad cow disease, the second  case Canada has found in its herd, the Canadian Food Inspection  Agency said on Sunday.
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"The whole of England is back at a standstill. This is very bad news for the British farming industry"  Britain's latest foot-and-mouth outbreak is the same strain as last month's, according to initial test results Thursday that gave farmers hope the disease could be contained in a small region.If the strain turns out to be different, Britain's farmers _ who have already suffered from the earlier outbreak as well as floods this summer _ could lose more of their livestock.In a larger outbreak in 2001, thousands of cattle, sheep and pig carcasses were burned on large pyres across the country. The farming industry lost millions in revenue. Read more