Article: Q-RNA, Inc. Announces First Blood-based Opportunity for Detection of Prion Diseases in Live Animals; Potential for First Pre-mortum Test for Mad Cow Disease; New Technology Could Be Used to Test Live Animals and Eliminate Current Requirement to Slaughter Animals for Mad Cow Testing.

Article: .... The New York Times reported that deaths from ...
The Food Institute Report;  July 31, 2000 ;     491 words ... ... . The New York Times reported that deaths from the human form of mad cow disease appear to be increasing. This year, 14 Britons have died of the disease - the sameamount that succumbed during all of ...

Article: U.S. imposes new rules to halt mad cow disease ...
International Herald Tribune;  January 28, 2004 ;     228 words ...International Herald Tribune 01-28-2004 The Food and Drug Administration has imposed new rules to prevent the spread of mad cow disease, including a ban on feeding cow blood and chicken wastes to cattle. The agency also banned the use of dead or disabled ...

Article: Suspect BSE meat 'sold in four US states' American scientists ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  December 28, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Chatham, in the Hudson River Valley of New York, looked at his bull and said ... prime beef herds of Angus steers. "Mad cow is really a perception issue," Mr ... Gene Bauston of Farm Sanctuary in New York said: "I think we have had the problem ...

Article: Backup tests alleviate mad-cow worry in ...
International Herald Tribune;  November 25, 2004 ;     257 words ...International Herald Tribune 11-25-2004 A cow that tested positive last week on preliminary tests for mad cow disease has tested negative on the follow-up, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The government's National ...

Article: MAD COW PREVENTION EFFORT SLAMMED.(CAPITAL REGION)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  March 30, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... efforts to prevent mad cow disease and other ... from occurring in New York. At issue: the ... widespread testing of New York's livestock. But ... uncertainty surrounding mad cow, there wasn't ... have taken against mad cow. Among them: destroying ... imported by ...

Article: MAD COW: LINKED TO THOUSANDS OF CJD CASES?
United Press International;  December 29, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... encephalopathy -- the clinical name for mad cow disease. Only one case of mad cow has been reported in U.S ... Florida in 1994, Oregon in 1996, New York in 1999-2000 and Texas in ... Although in some instances, a mad cow link was suspected, all of ...

Article: Mad Cow: Linked to thousands of CJD cases?
United Press International;  December 29, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... encephalopathy -- the clinical name for mad cow disease. Only one case of mad cow has been reported in U.S ... Florida in 1994, Oregon in 1996, New York in 1999-2000 and Texas in ... Although in some instances, a mad cow link was suspected, all of ...