Mad over meat: just how scared should we be of "mad cow" disease?
call it the luck of the draw. Although 35 million cows are slaughtered for human consumption every year in the United States, in December of 2003, only 40,000 were being tested for disease--less than one percent of that total. It was in that less than one percent of test...

Disease Sciences Appoints Former Researcher From Great Britain's Ministry Of Agriculture to Scientific Advisory Committee.
BOCA RATON, Fla., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- As mad cow disease in Great Britain reaches epidemic proportions, Disease Sciences Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: DISE) has tapped one of that country's top mad cow researchers to serve on its scientific advisory committee to help develop a reliable test...

Prion disease called potential risk to humans: chronic wasting disease of deer.
SAN DIEGO -- Unless you are a deer hunter or live in selected areas of the country, you may never have heard of chronic wasting disease. So far, this disease has only been known to infect cervids--deer and elk. But in light of the recent discovery of...

Prion disease called potential risk to humans: chronic wasting disease of deer.
SAN DIEGO -- Unless you are a deer hunter or live in selected areas of the country, you may never have heard of chronic wasting disease. So far, this disease has only been known to infect cervids--deer and elk. But in light of the recent discovery of...

What's the beef? Mad Cow disease hits the United States.
MABTON, Wash. -- The 6-year-old cow stumbled around, barely able to support its own weight. It cocked its head to the side, staring straight ahead with blank eyes. Aware of the cow's feeble state, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspectors at the slaughterhouse tested the animal for bovine spongiform...

US violates global standards on preventing mad cow disease.
The National Cattlemen's Beef Association describes government and industry efforts to safeguard the American public from mad cow disease as "swift," "decisive" and "aggressive." The world's authority on these diseases disagrees. Dr. Stanley Prusiner is the scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of prions,...

GENENCOR INTERNATIONAL AND CENTRE FOR APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY & RESEARCH TO COLLABORATE ON ELIMINATING PRIONS THAT CAUSE MAD COW DISEASE AND VARIANT CJD.
Genencor and CAMR announce collaboration to develop a sterilisation process for medical instruments, rendered animal material and human blood supply PR Newswire, London, August 2. This press release is transmitted on behalf of Genencor International Palo Alto, California and London - Genencor International...

Genencor International and Centre for Applied Microbiology & Research To Collaborate On Eliminating Prions That Cause Mad Cow Disease and Variant CJD.
~ Genencor and CAMR announce collaboration to develop a sterilization process for medical instruments, rendered animal material and human blood supply ~ PALO ALTO, Calif. and LONDON, Aug. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Genencor International (Nasdaq: GCOR) and the UK's Centre for Applied Microbiology &...

Tracking, testing: FDA moves to minimize Mad Cow disease risks.
SILVER SPRING, MD. -- Tracking infected cows, banning cattle feed made from cow parts, and testing cows are three of the Food and Drug Administration's actions in response to the discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, known as "mad cow disease," in a cow that entered the United States from...

FDA moves to minimize mad cow disease risks: tracking, testing.
SILVER SPRING, MD. -- Tracking infected cows, banning cattle feed made from cow parts, and testing cows are three of the Food and Drug Administration's actions in response to the discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, known as "mad cow disease," in a cow that entered the United States from...