Transcript: Commentary: US government needs to be prepared for public fears as well as disease outbreak should mad cow disease appear in this country

Article: Pueblo, Colo., Newspaper Incorrectly Reports Deaths from ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  March 27, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Mar. 27--No one has died of mad cow disease in Colorado or even the United ... Disease, a brain malady similar to mad cow disease in its effects. "There have been no cases of mad cow disease in either humans or cattle in ...

Transcript: Analysis: Despite public hysteria, mad cow ...
NPR All Things Considered;  December 12, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Analysis: Despite public hysteria, mad cow disease situation in Europe is largely ... LINDA WERTHEIMER, host: Fear of mad cow disease continues to grip Europe as countries ... the word that the outbreak of mad cow disease is under control. And as NPR ...

Article: Mad Cow Disease Risk Low, USDA Says.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  February 10, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... investigation ended finding no additional cases of mad cow disease. The USDA's Chief Veterinary Officer Ron DeHaven ... tougher safeguards and testing to avoid spreading mad cow. Mad cow disease causes a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ...

Article: Questions About Mad Cow Disease and Beef
AP Online;  December 24, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... the United States of possible mad cow disease. The Philippines, compared ... the brain-wasting illness, mad cow disease, some consumers are wondering ... change their diets. Q: Why is mad cow disease a concern? A: A human disease ...

Article: Schools monitor mad cow disease; Many ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  January 5, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... where a Holstein infected with mad cow disease was slaughtered. News of that ... to the mad cow investigation. Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy ... take home about food safety and mad cow disease. In New York City, home to ...

Article: First suspected case of mad cow disease ...
AP Worldstream;  December 24, 2003 ;     608 words ... ... WASHINGTON The first suspected case of mad cow disease in the United States has been ... mad cow finding, she said. Mad cow disease, known also as bovine spongiform ... Jakob disease, is related to mad cow disease and doctors believe humans get ...

Article: Japan turns up fourth case of mad cow ...
AP Worldstream;  May 13, 2002 ;     472 words ... ... confirmed its fourth case of mad cow disease Monday, the first since an outbreak ... confirmed the diagnosis Monday. Mad cow disease, also known as bovine spongiform ... mad cow pathogens, he said. Mad cow disease is believed to spread through ...