Emory warns of mad cow-like risk
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More than 500 surgery patients at Emory University Hospital may have been exposed to a fatal disease that resembles mad cow after a patient who had brain surgery Sept.
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Emory University officials assured Friday that there was little chance that more than 500 surgical patients at the school&#39;s medical center could have been infected by a fatal disease similar to the human version of mad cow disease.
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Warnings could be introduced after analysis confirms high levels of bacteria and viruses.
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Virus expert says government must order vaccination of livestock.
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The government is checking a possible new case of mad cow disease, officials said Thursday, rattling the nation's cattle industry, food processors and beef-oriented restaurant chains.
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HUNDREDS of patients of Addenbrooke&#39;s Hospital have been warned they may have come into contact with the human form of &quot;mad cow disease&quot;.
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned governments, especially those in Asia, that they may face more diseases originating in animals in the future, posing a threat to the health of human beings.
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Thousands of people who received plasma or other blood products in Britain received letters from the government today warning that they may have been exposed to the deadly human form of mad cow disease.
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A year after the first US case of mad cow disease was reported, Sen. Maria Cantwell says the Food and Drug Administration still has not fulfilled its promise to tighten animal feed rules to help prevent future cases.
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Scientists develop a technique they hope will improve detection of mad cow disease (vCJD) in humans.
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Humans are likely to catch more than one form of mad cow disease, experiments in mice suggest. But the good news is that some people may have a genetic make-up that protects them against the disease.
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A bacterium that causes intestinal illness in cattle and sheep could also be responsible for Crohn's disease, researchers said on Friday.
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An expert warns vCJD could become endemic in the UK unless blood screening is introduced.
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There are fears new foot-and-mouth restrictions may affect Wales's sheep sector more than in August.
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The United States likely has another  case of mad cow disease after an animal tested "inconclusive"  in two preliminary tests, but a false positive was also  possible, experts said on Thursday.
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Canadian officials said they had found mad cow disease in an animal born after feed restrictions were put in place in 1997.
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A possible new case of mad cow disease has been found in the United States, the Agriculture Department said Thursday. The agency said the brain of a cow tested positive three times on