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Beef giant Brazil halts China exports after confirming two mad cow disease cases
Reuters - Sun Sep 5, 2021
SAO PAULO - Brazil, the world's largest beef exporter, has suspended beef exports to its Number 1 customer, China, after confirming two cases of "atypical" mad cow disease in two separate domestic meat plants, the agriculture ministry said on Saturday. More»

NC Catholic priest, diagnosed with rare brain disease just last month, dies at age 53
Charlotte Observer` - Mon May 24, 2021
Father Michael Kottar, a Roman Catholic priest who had served in the Diocese of Charlotte for more than 21 years and who revealed earlier this month that a rare brain disease would soon take his life, died on Saturday night in Pickerington, Ohio. More»

Families plead New Brunswick government to commit to transparency surrounding "mystery" brain disease
CTV News - Sat May 22, 2021
HALIFAX - Those diagnosed with a rare brain disease in New Brunswick say they’ve been left in limbo and have yet to hear from public health officials regarding their diagnosis. More»

Brain illness similar to Mad Cow Disease kills five in Canada - 43 cases reported
The Express - Thu Apr 1, 2021
Health officials have reported 43 cases of the illness in New Bruswick province, Canadian network CBC reports. More»

Dangerous disease killing deer across country moving into southeast
WSB-TV - Thu Nov 14, 2019
ATLANTA - Across the US, a mysterious disease is killing deer, slowly. More»

Woman is 3rd person this year diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease at the Moncton Hospital
CBC.CA - Tue Nov 12, 2019
Diana Paterson is not sure how much longer she has to live. More»

Florida cow tests positive for mad cow disease
Miami Herald - Thu Aug 30, 2018
A Florida cow has turned up with a form of mad cow disease, the sixth to be confirmed in the U. More»

Don't Worry About New Alabama Mad Cow, Says CDC, but Facts Suggest Otherwise
Alternet - Tue Jul 25, 2017
Government agencies protect big agriculture at the expense of our health. More»

Mad Cow Disease Detected In Alabama
KUNC - Tue Jul 18, 2017
US Department of Agriculture scientists confirmed Tuesday that an 11-year-old cow found in an Alabama livestock market suffered from the neurologic cattle disease, formally called bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). More»

Fatal Disease on Rise in Humans, Deer in Wisconsin
Newser - Mon Jul 10, 2017
Chronic wasting disease seen more amid worries deer may pass it to humans. More»

Actress Barbara Tarbuck dies of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
IBT - Fri Jan 6, 2017
Actress Barbara Tarbuck, who starred in the award-winning TV series American Horror Story has died. More»

New Test Could Improve Diagnosis of Rare, Fatal Brain Disorder
Live Science - Fri Dec 16, 2016
A rare and fatal brain disorder called sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease can be challenging to identify, with patients needing to undergo a number of tests before a diagnosis can be made. More»

Cow infected with mad cow disease dies on a Welsh farm in Britain's first case of the brain bug this year
Daily Mail - Wed Sep 30, 2015
A dead cow on a British farm was infected with mad cow disease, officials have revealed. More»

The Deadly Disease in Meat That Health Officials Are Ignoring
AlterNet - Tue Jun 24, 2014
When the first US mad cow was found in late 2003, 98 percent of US beef exports evaporated overnight. More»

Mad cow disease death confirmed in Texas
CNN - Thu Jun 5, 2014
Mad cow disease has caused a fourth death in the United States, health officials say. More»

NH patient likely died of rare brain disease
Associated Press - Wed Sep 4, 2013
CONCORD, New Hampshire - Public health officials believe one person in New Hampshire has died of a rare, degenerative brain disease, and say there's a remote chance up to 13 others in multiple states were exposed to the fatal illness through surgical equipment. More»

Mad cow UK study: About 30,000 Britons may carry dormant disease
Global Post - Fri May 3, 2013
Health experts say 30,000 Britons - double a prior estimate - likely carry a dormant form of mad cow disease, and that in a high-case scenario up to 1,000 people could die from it. More»

Mad Cow Disease Confirmed In California Dairy Cow, USDA Says
Huffington Post - Tue Apr 24, 2012
The USDA has confirmed that a case of mad cow disease was found in a California dairy cow. More»

UW Hospital Says It Wasn't Negligent After Treating CJD Patient
WISC-TV - Thu Jul 23, 2009
MADISON, Wisconsin - University of Wisconsin Hospital officials denied on Friday the hospital was negligent in any way regarding the possible transmission of a rare and fatal neurological disease to 53 people. More»

Mad cow disease suspected in Spanish doctor's death
CNN - Sat Mar 28, 2009
A Spanish pathologist who specialized in a human strain of mad cow disease died Saturday, and officials suspect the disease played a role in his death, officials said. More»

Government bans 'downer' cows from food supply
Associated Press - Sat Mar 14, 2009
WASHINGTON - The government on Saturday permanently banned the slaughter of cows too sick or weak to stand on their own, seeking to further minimize the chance that mad cow disease could enter the food supply. More»

Mad cow disease kills mother and son
CNN - Wed Sep 24, 2008
MADRID, Spain - The mother of a Spanish man who died from the human form of mad cow disease has also died from the illness, Spain's Ministry of Health says. More»

Massachusetts woman diagnosed with rare brain disease
Associated Press - Mon Jul 21, 2008
BOSTON - An elderly woman has been diagnosed with a rare brain disorder, state health officials said Monday. More»

South Korea Protests US Beef Imports
BBC - Sat May 31, 2008
South Korean police have clashed with demonstrators in the capital Seoul during protests over government plans to resume US beef imports. More»

Lawsuit targets USDA loophole on 'downer' cows
Associated Press - Wed Mar 5, 2008
Los Angeles - The Humane Society sued the federal government Wednesday over what it said is a legal loophole that allows sick or crippled cattle, called "downers," into the food supply. More»

USDA Rejects 'Downer' Cow Ban
Washington Post - Thu Feb 28, 2008
Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer told Congress yesterday that he would not endorse an outright ban on "downer" cows entering the food supply or back stiffer penalties for regulatory violations by meat-processing plants in the wake of the largest beef recall in the nation's history. More»

New Case of Mad Cow Reported in Canada
Associated Press - Tue Feb 26, 2008
OTTAWA - Canadian officials confirmed a new case of mad cow disease Tuesday, the second such case in two months and the 12th since the disease was first discovered in Canada in 2003. More»

Inspectors say meat safety is threatened
Associated Press - Wed Feb 20, 2008
LOS ANGELES - Sometimes, government inspectors responsible for examining slaughterhouse cattle for mad cow disease and other ills are so short-staffed that they find themselves peering down from catwalks at hundreds of animals at once, looking for such telltale signs as droopy ears, stumbling gait and facial paralysis. More»

A sickening spectacle
USA Today - Mon Feb 18, 2008
Where's the beef? That catch phrase this week is giving way to a more troubling question: What's in the beef? A mind-boggling 143 million pounds of frozen meat was recalled by the government Sunday from a California slaughterhouse, the largest recall in US history. More»

USDA makes nation's largest beef recall
Associated Press - Sat Feb 16, 2008
LOS ANGELES - The US Department of Agriculture on Sunday ordered the recall of 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a California slaughterhouse, the subject of an animal-abuse investigation, that provided meat to school lunch programs. More»

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