Disease's U.S. emergence highlights role of feed ban.
The first appearance in the United States of the cattle-killing ailment known as mad cow disease has rocked the beef industry and raised fears of an outbreak of a similar deadly brain disease in people. However, the threat to both people and animals in the United States remains low...

FDA moves to minimize risks tied to mad cow disease.
SILVER SPRING, MD. -- Tracking infected cows, banning the use of cattle feed made from cow parts, and testing cows are three of the actions that the Food and Drug Administration has taken in response to the discovery of a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, known as "mad cow...

Cow parts: if BSE disease does come to the United States, it will inevitably wreak havoc because nearly everything we touch or taste has cow in it. A lesson in truly efficient recycling.
A COW IS ELEMENTARY. MILK AND BUTTER AND CHEESE FROM COWS FILL THE DAIRY SHELVES IN supermarkets, and the meat section is stacked with cuts of cow. The fast-food restaurants of this world are archipelagoes of ground cow. And, lately, much of the anxiety people feel about life, and...

Mad cow: last minute insurance stampede.
Gena Ott was running a Christmas errand a few minutes before 5 p.m. Dec. 23 when her cell phone rang. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy--mad cow disease--had infiltrated the United States, and three cattle producers waited at her office to buy Livestock Risk Protection insurance. This financial officer and...

AuctionAnything.com Retires 8,021,694 Shares Through Stock Buyback.
ORLANDO, Fla., June 7 /PRNewswire/ -- AuctionAnything.com, Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: UBUY) announced today that its subsidiary Disease S.I. has closed on a stock purchase agreement subsequently buying back 8,021,694 shares of common stock from Winter Springs, Florida- based Investek Holdings LLC and a former director. The...

Side trip.
* Jonathan Simms loved to play soccer. The teen from Belfast, Northern Ireland, dreamed of going pro. But he never got the chance. Shortly after trying out for Northern Ireland's national soccer team in 2001, he was diagnosed with the human form of mad cow disease. *...

Who is to blame for mad deer?
The helicopter rises up over the ridge line, the noise of the rotors scattering the targets below. But the snipers in the doorway already have their scoped, high-powered rifles locked in, and the bullets fly until the targets pitch forward, kicking and writhing in their death throes. ...

Too much mad-cow safety?
Last December, the first known case of mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE) in the United States was discovered in a Washington state cow imported from Canada. A panel of experts assembled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has said there is a "high probability" of...

A sane look at mad cows.
A couple hundred new cases of cattle afflicted with mad cow disease have sent ripples of panic across France and Germany, reviving the specter of the hundreds of thousands of cows felled since 1986 in Britain by the degenerative brain sickness. People can contract the disease by eating infected...

Facts and ideas from anywhere.
MAD COWS VS SANE COWS Mad cow disease, officially called bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), emerged in British cattle in the mid-1980s (1). Its origin is unknown, but scientists believe it spread to >180,000 calves in the United Kingdom and to about 1300 elsewhere in Europe through feed...