BSE/CJD
Britain: New wave of human BSE/vCJD feared
By Barry Mason, December 27, 2008
Britain faces the spectre of a second wave of deaths from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease vCJD as a result of people, overwhelmingly young adults, consuming meat from cattle infected with BSE, or Mad Cow Disease.
Canada: meatpackers profit from BSE crisis
By David Adelaide, August 23, 2004
A recently released report by Alberta’s auditor general reveals that the major meatpacking companies reaped windfall profits from Canada’s BSE crisis, while the social cost of the crisis fell onto cattle producers, including small farmers and farm workers, and the public treasury.
Britain: new findings point to larger outbreaks of vCJD “mad cow disease”
By Trevor Johnson, August 18, 2004
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 blood transfusion [1].
BSE/Mad Cow Disease crisis provokes trade war
By Paul Mitchell, August 2, 2004
The spread of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, has provoked a trade war in cattle and beef products.
Britain: Report highlights BSE danger from infected sheep
By Barry Mason, January 21, 2002
The risk to humans developing variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) could be far greater if the brain-wasting disease Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) has entered the sheep population. This was the conclusion of a study published in the British science magazine Nature on January 10.
Britain: Government suppresses report showing hospital patients face danger from Human BSE
By Paul Mitchell, November 29, 2001
The Labour government has suppressed a damning report into the procedures used by hospitals to prevent the spread of the incurable brain-wasting disorder variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD).
Britain: Labour government accused of cover-up over BSE experiments
By Paul Mitchell, October 26, 2001
Farming and Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett has been accused of seeking to suppress how vital experiments concerning the safety of British lamb and mutton were botched-up. Scientists had hoped to determine whether deadly Mad Cow Disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or BSE) has infected British s
Britain: Big increase in human form of "Mad Cow Disease"
By Paul Mitchell, September 11, 2001
The incidence of variant Creutzfeldt Jacobs Disease (vCJD)—the human form of “Mad Cow Disease”—has increased 20 percent in the UK since last year. In his announcement last week, Professor James Ironside, head of the CJD Surveillance Unit in Edinburgh, said that instead of “a fl
World Health Organisation says BSE is a major threat
By Paul Mitchell, July 6, 2001
Scientists last month warned that Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), or Mad Cow Disease, “has joined AIDS as a major health challenge facing the world.” A conference organised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) concluded wit
BSE / "Mad Cow Disease" spreading in Spain
By Vicky Short, May 7, 2001
Forty-three animals infected with BSE, or “Mad Cow Disease,” have so far been registered in Spain. According to official information provided by the department of agriculture and fisheries, 33 of these are concentrated in the north-west area of Galicia. The others are in Asturias/Basque Country
Growing concern about "Mad Cow Disease" in the US
By Joanne Laurier, February 2, 2001
More than 1,200 head of cattle in Texas were quarantined last week for fear of exposure to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as “mad cow disease”. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating whether the feedlot eaten by the cattle contained meat-and-bone meal mad
BSE/"mad cow disease" crisis spreads throughout Europe
By Richard Tyler, January 23, 2001
Cases of BSE have now been identified in 10 of the 15 European Union (EU) countries, as well as Switzerland and Liechtenstein, which are not members. Although incidences are still relatively few in number, the discovery of the disease across the continent has had a dramatic effect on beef consumption, which
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