Mad Cow Disease News

Fish gelatine is rising in importance as an alternative to bovine and porcine gelatine - but there are still challenges in terms of supply, extraction and functionality.

Health chiefs last night confirmed a man suspected of suffering from the human form of mad cow disease is being treated in hospital.

Veterinarian Stephanie Czub, seen with cattle at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency laboratory near Lethbridge, discovered a case of BSE from her Winnipeg lab in 2003.

Cows are shown on a farmer's field in High River, Alta., on May 22, 2003, two days after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Alberta government announced a cow from a herd in northwestern Alberta was infected with BSE, the first case of mad cow disease reported in Canada in a decade.

Health bosses have confirmed a patient is believed to have contracted the human form of mad cow disease in Sussex.

Trucker Mark Wendorff says his livestock trucking business has never fully recovered from the BSE crisis 10 years ago.

BC Partners' $1.3 billion acquisition of animal identification company Allflex will be backed with an$810 million debt financing, banking sources said on Wednesday.

Target market: A young customer checks out U.S. beef products at a supermarket in Kita Ward, Tokyo, after they went on sale in February because import restrictions were eased.

The Canadian Parliament has been investigating the fraud regarding US testing for Mad Cow.

The outbreak of the illness, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy , resulted in nearly 200 human deaths worldwide and the slaughter of millions of cattle, the Guardian reports.

British officials warn hospitals that nearly 1,000 people with the human variant of mad cow disease could die because of mad cow infected blood transfusions.

Up to 1,000 British people could die of the human form of mad cow disease because of infected blood given to them in British hospitals, ministers have been warned.

Wednesday night, Congressman Tim Huelskamp was Ambassador Kenichiro Sasae's guest at the residence of the Ambassador of Japan.

To determine attack rates, incubation times, and molecular signatures, we orally exposed 18 macaques to 1 high dose of brain material from cattle with BSE.