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NEWS ABOUT: mad cow disease

mad cow disease stories: 7 news summaries

(Newser) - Madrid’s regional government hopes to relax EU laws that call for rotting livestock to be removed from fields—a precaution against mad cow disease—because the removal denies carrion-munching vultures a meal, the AP reports. “When a sheep or cow dies in the countryside,” said one ornithologist,... More »

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Spain • law • European Union • Madrid • mad cow disease • vulture • carrion

Docs Alarmed after Mad Cow Linked to Plasma Transfusion

Risk of infection with fatal disease was previously said be very low

Feb 15, 09 1:18 PM CST
(Newser) - Scientists have discovered the first case of mad cow caused by tainted blood plasma, the Telegraph reports. The elderly British man, who died from other causes, received blood transfusions years before doctors imposed restrictions to halt the spread of the fatal disease. Scientists had previously insisted the 4,000 people... More »

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Britain • mad cow disease • plasma • blood transfusions

FDA Rules Block Import of Prized Danish Sperm

US running low on popular 'Viking' sperm, barred by Mad Cow safeguards

Aug 13, 08 7:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - FDA rules banning European sperm imports are driving some would-be American mothers to desperation, the Washington Post reports. Sperm from Danish donors used to be a popular import. But regulations to safeguard the US from a human form of Mad Cow disease have shut down the supply and sperm banks... More »

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FDA • sperm • Denmark • mad cow disease • sperm bank • sperm donors • bovine spongiform encephalopathy

S. Korean Cabinet Offers to Resign Over US Beef Imports

Cabinet offers resignation as 1m prepare to march

Jun 10, 08 6:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - The entire South Korean government has offered to resign in the face of a popular protest triggered by the lifting of import restrictions on US beef. The Korean government withdrew a ban introduced to prevent mad cow disease, setting off demonstrations expected to bring a million people onto the streets... More »

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South Korea • beef • protests • mad cow disease • Lee Myung-bak • beef industry

 USDA to Ban 'Downer' Cattle 

Bid to boost confidence in beef

May 21, 08 2:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - The USDA plans to ban all so-called "downer" cattle from the food supply to safeguard consumers from illnesses such as mad cow disease. Such animals are too weak or injured to walk, which can often be an indication of illness. Disturbing video of workers in a California slaughterhouse using... More »

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USDA • Humane Society • mad cow disease • Chino slaughterhouse • Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. • slaughterhouse • beef industry • Ed Schafer • bovine spongiform encephalopathy • knock box • American Meat Institute • downer cattle

US Scrutinizes Calif. Meat Packer

Video raises questions about safety of school food supply

Jan 31, 08 2:54 PM CST
(Newser) - The US Department of Agriculture is looking into a California meat distributor following the release of a video showing animal abuse at a Chino slaughterhouse, the Los Angeles Times reports. Westland Meat was immediately suspended from its contract to provide beef to federal school lunch programs because of its practice... More »

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meat • mad cow disease • federal school lunch program

Top 10 Incurable Diseases

Medicine marches on, leaving behind some ailments that defy understanding

Sep 14, 07 10:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Doctors have successfully performed a face transplant, but the cure for the common cold still eludes them. LiveScience ponders the diseases that got away.
  1. AIDS
  2. Alzheimer's disease
  3. The common cold
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AIDS • schizophrenia • list • common cold • avian flu • lupus • mad cow disease • chronic fatigue syndrome • Alzheimer's Disease

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