Thousands in Britain may have been exposed to mad cow disease: officials
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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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A second case of mad cow disease may have turned up in the United States, Agriculture Department officials said Thursday.
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Six thousand people are to be told they may have been exposed to the human form of mad cow disease through blood products, the government says.
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Mad cow disease has been found in a  goat, the first time the brain-wasting affliction that ravaged  European cattle herds and killed at least 100 people has been  diagnosed in another animal, the EU said on Friday.
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The agent that transmits mad cow and  related diseases may spread further in the body of an animal  suffering from certain illnesses, scientists said on Thursday.
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The government has ordered a definitive laboratory test after two preliminary screening tests raised the possibility of mad cow disease in the tissue of a recently slaughtered animal, federal officials said yesterday.
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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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Britain's livestock owners received more bad news Monday: Another herd of cattle tested positive for foot-and-mouth disease, and a second cow was found to have bluetongue disease.
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British government sources have confirmed a suspected case of foot and mouth disease on a farm in southern England, BBC and Sky television reported on Wednesday.
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Hundreds of thousands of people have been struck down by a highly infectious stomach bug that swept the United Kingdom during the holiday period, doctors said on Thursday.
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Suspected case of cattle disease in Surrey, days after government declared outbreak over.
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British farmers grappling to contain outbreaks of the foot-and-mouth virus faced the threat Sunday of a new disease after a cow was diagnosed with bluetongue, the first case recorded in Britain.
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The Indian government is  investigating reports that blood samples that could be  contaminated with the human form of mad cow disease had entered  the country from Britain, a top official said on Tuesday.
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CALGARY, Alberta  - Canada may have found a new  case of mad cow disease, officials said on Thursday,   rekindling tensions in its hard-hit beef industry just one day  after the United States announced plans to reopen the border to  live Canadian cattle.
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Canadian officials said Thursday they had detected a possible case of mad cow disease, just a day after the United States said it planned to reopen its border to Canadian beef.
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NEW YORK A possible new case of mad cow disease has been found in the United States, according to the Agriculture Department. The agency said Thursday that the brain of a cow tested positive three times on
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Tests on sheep on a Surrey farm suggest exposure to foot-and-mouth disease, officials say.