CJD teenager 'reacting well' - Radical treatment being given to the Belfast teenager Jonathan Simms, who is suffering from variant CJD, appears to be working
BBC News - 3/6/03

CJD study branded 'misleading' - People are being misled by reports that the worst of human BSE infection may be over, the father of a teenage victim has said.
BBC News - 2/28/03

Large Human Mad Cow Epidemic Unlikely - Scientists 
Reuters - 2/25/03

Fury over ban on burial of dead animals on family farms 
Western People (Ireland) - 2/25/03

New Lead for Sporadic CJD Cause; Enlisting Evolutionary Help; Science Seen
The Scientist - 2/24/03

Project seeks faster test to detect mad cow disease
The Daily Yomiuri - 2/24/03

Experts unsure about BSE infection
Japan Today - 2/22/03

BSE review chief hints that ban on older cattle may end - Relaxation would be tied to testing of carcasses 
Guardian Unlimited - 2/20/03

Detection of Pathologic Prion Protein in the Olfactory Epithelium in Sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease
The New England Journal of Medicine - Vol 348:711-719  Feb 20, 2003  Num 8 

Nasal Biopsy May Diagnose Fatal Brain Disease
Reuters - 2/19/03

Spotlight on Organic Deer
Farminglife (Northern Ireland) - 2/19/03

A 38-year-old man with a 9 month history of neurological and cognitive impairment
The Lancet Neurology Vol 2, Num 3 March 2003 (registration required) or here

Congress lashes out at 'old Europe' - "French wine is clarified using bovine blood, so that Americans could be at risk of getting BSE or "mad cow" disease" - Speaker of the House of Representatives, J Dennis Hastert
BBC News - 2/13/03 - more...from Terry S Singeltary Sr.

The spongiform encephalopathy advisory committe open meeting 11th February 2003
Terry S Singeltary Sr. - 2/11/03-seac77_3.pdf-seac77_5.pdf-seac77_6.pdf-workshop.pdf

Hormone drug withdrawn over fears of mad cow disease
The Independent - 2/11/03

Japan braces for possible 8th mad cow case
Reuters - 2/7/03

Blood test discovery to identify sufferers of vCJD
The Scotsman - 2/7/03

Gradipore shares soar 29 per cent after successful blood isolation experiment
The Sydney Morning Herald - 2/6/03

'Miniscule risk' from bone meal
Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph - 2/4/03

Prion Disease May Be Caused By Buildup Of Cellular Trash, Say Stanford Researchers
Science Daily - 2/3/03

BSE: 1/10th gram lethal new study says via W.H.O. Dr Maura Ricketts
Terry S. Singeltary Sr. - 2/2/03- RealPlayer audio - BBC Radio4 Farming Today

Prions get fishy - Primitive prion hints at origins of brain disease
Nature - 1/31/03

Mad cow epidemic warning
The Australian - 1/31/03

Milk feed linked to sixth mad cow
The Japan Times - 1/29/03

'Misadventure' ruling after vCJD death
BBC News - 12/29/03

Italy's Meat Supply Not Safe from BSE
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 1/28/03

Inquest into CJD 'cluster' death
BBC News - 1/28/03

Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Advisory Committee; Notice of Meeting
Hoovers Online - 1/24/03

Is this the end of the CJD scare?
Times Online - 1/24/03

Attacking the brain
Times Online - 1/24/03

Japan discovers 7th mad cow case
Swiss Radio International - 1/23/03

BSE – a wolf in sheep's clothing?
Trends in Microbiology - Vol. 11, No. 1, January 2003 (registration required) 

Mad cow outbreak hits Wakayama
Mainichi Daily News - 1/20/03

CJD death toll shock
Sunday Sun - 1/12/03

Euro Labelling Will 'Turn Stomachs' Insists MEP 
Farming Life - 1/11/03

Downward Trend in BSE Incidents
Farming Life - 1/11/03

CJD victim, 18, is first to undergo brain treatment
The Independent - 1/11/03

Controversial vCJD drug to be administered 
New Scientist - 1/10/03

Belfast teenager has operation
UTV Internet - 1/10/03

Prion Disease Treatment's Early Promise Unravels
Science - 2003 299(5604): p. 191-192

Incinerator sparks MEPs' concern
BBC News - 1/9/03

Farmers Investigated for Breaking Pet Food Storage Rules
The Scotsman - 1/9/03

Terror to target food chain?
News 24 - 1/8/03

Belgian authorities find first mad cow disease of 2003
Hoover's Online - 1/8/03

Commercial farming of wildlife likely - Breeding to boost numbers, economy 
Bangkok Post - 1/7/03

Death Toll from Human BSE Cases Still Rising
The Scotsman - 1/7/03

Vcjd Teenager Awaits Court-Sanctioned Drug Treatment
The Scotsman - 1/7/03

EU tests alternative method to dispose of BSE waste
The Irish Examiner - 1/1/03

Tongue's out for BSE - Mouth's muscle could be a route for infection
Nature - 12/30/02

Testing for a CJD timebomb
Manchester News - 12/27/02

Italy reports 86th case of mad cow disease
Hoover's Online - 12/27/02

CJD sufferer cleared to have pioneering surgery 
Guardian Unlimited - 12/24/02

Family of CJD Teenager in New Court Ordeal over Radical Drug
The Scotsman - 12/23/02

Govt concerned at recent BSE discovery
The Irish Examiner - 12/20/02

When blood and money circulate
The Journal - 12/20/02

vCJD complacency—cause for alarm?
The Lancet Neurology - Vol 2, Num 1, 01 January 2003 (registration required) or here

Plant illegally burned BSE-infected carcases
The Scotsman - 12/19/02

Student, 17, is latest fatal victim of vCJD
The Scotsman - 12/19/02

NI teenager's family welcomes CJD ruling
BBC News - 12/18/02

Analysis: Judgment reflects desperation of struggle against vCJD
The Independent - 12/18/02

Britons May Face New Wave of Mad Cow Deaths - "...there is this horrible possibility that there might be a second wave of people with a different genetic make-up, and that an outbreak could occur among them after a longer period."
ABC News - 12/13/02

Mad deer 
The North American version of prion disease 
European Molecular Biology Organization - vol. 3, no. 12, pp 1117-1119, 2002

Fears Rising of Another Variant of Mad-Cow Disease in Humans
Tehran Times - 12/10/02

Farm abandoned over BSE fears - "After the fires to destroy the carcasses, ashes and topsoil were blown across his farm and ploughed into the mud as bulldozers flattened farm outbuildings as part of the cleansing process."
Birmingham Post - 12/9/02

Our shattered hopes over CJD wonder drug - Treatment hailed as cure 'just made my girl suffer'
The Mirror - 12/9/02

They drive us mad with false fears about mad cows
Times Online - 12/5/02

Fighting to save his son
BBC News - 12/5/02

Q&A: High Court CJD battle - Two families are asking the High Court to force the NHS to treat their children, who are dying from vCJD. 
BBC News - 12/5/02

Swedes using dead animals as biofuel
Ananova - 12/5/02 - more info...

BSE meat may be riskier to humans than first thought
The Independent - 12/2/02

vCJD screening may be years away, warns scientist
The Guardian - 12/2/02

Eating meat 'may still pose CJD risk'
The Observer - 12/1/02

....UCSF-led team reports new test improves detection of prions in animals
....The University of California, San Francisco - 10/20/02

Call for national CJD tests - A Nobel Prize-winning scientist has reportedly said all Britons should be tested for variant CJD
BBC News - 12/1/02

Scientist in new CJD warning - "Prusiner revealed that experiments at the University of California, in San Francisco, had shown that scrapie-infected mice have unexpectedly high concentrations of deadly prions in their muscles."
The Scotsman - 12/1/02

Drunken moose alert in southern Norway
Aftenposten - 11/29/02

State reassures consumers as another BSE case found - "The Department of Agriculture and Food has re-assured consumers and foreign markets that Irish beef is among the safest in the world ..."
Irish Examiner - 11/30/02

Dept investigates silo after BSE find - The pedigree bull is the first Irish animal born since 1997 to test positive for the disease 
Irish Examiner - 11/29/02

BSE may cause more CJD cases than thought
New Scientist  - 11/28/02

....Scrapie (Mad Sheep Disease) May Pose a Risk to Humans
....New Scientist  - 3/28/01

....Adaptation of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy agent to primates
....and comparison with Creutzfeldt- Jakob disease: Implications for human
....health 
....Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 98, Issue 7, 4142-4147, March 27, 2001

BSE prions propagate as either variant CJD-like or sporadic CJD-like prion strains in transgenic mice expressing human prion protein 
The EMBO Journal, Vol. 21, No. 23 pp. 6358-6366, 2002 - Full Text

BSE may have caused second strain of CJD 
Guardian Unlimited - 11/28/02

BSE linked to further CJD cases
BBC News - 11/28/02

CJD BLOOD POISON - 300 Scots fear death sentence infection
Daily Record - 11/28/02

Spinal cord found on imported beef - "The discoveries of prohibited spinal cord in beef imported from Europe are running at nearly one per week, the NFU said."
The Journal (England) - 11/23/02

Japan to check all deer if case of CWD is found 
Food Market Exchange - 11/22/02

Five new BSE cases uncovered this week
Irish Examiner - 11/22/02

Subclinical Scrapie Infection in a Resistant Species: Persistence, Replication, and Adaptation of Infectivity during Four Passages.
J Infect Dis 2002 Dec 1;186 Suppl 2:S166-70

Denmark confirms 10th case of mad cow disease
Meat and Poultry Online - 11/20/02

Scientists discover sheep can get BSE. No need to panic, they say. Should we?
The Scotsman - 11/19/02

Fury as France escapes beef punishment
The Scotsman - 11/14/02

Farmers lose out on aid - "How much more incompetent can this government be?" - France had received £20 million; Ireland, £4.3 million, and Scotland "not a penny." 
The Scotsman - 11/13/02

Squirrel ‘Terror’ Sweeps Town - English Town Goes Nuts Over Rampaging Rodent
ABC News - 11/8/02

Increased funding of two surveillance programmes - "New Zealand has never had a case of CWD, but has been exposed to risk of this disease through the importation of elk from Canadian herds subsequently found to be infected."
Scoop Media - 11/6/02

CJD scare woman speaks out
BBC News - 11/5/02

Finland's first case of scrapie found in goat
Helsingin Sanomat - 11/4/02

Have you the guts to eat brains? - Eating pig brains may seem barbaric but they could be your ticket to eternal youth. They are said to improve brain power too
The Straits Times (Singapore) - 11/3/02

An Taisce call on BSE carcasses - AN TAISCE has taken action in Europe in an attempt to get the Government to reclassify BSE material as infectious and hazardous waste
Irish Examiner - 10/31/02

Ministry denies illegal BSE carcass disposal 
Irish Examiner - 10/31/02

Heart Test Could Point to Mad Cow-Linked Disease
Reuters - 10/31/02

CJD ordeal lasts 30yrs
The Sun - 10/31/02

Hospital blunder leaves patients at risk of fatal brain disease
Guardian Unlimited - 10/30/02

A YEAR AFTER/BSE blues: The government is having a tough time convincing the public the mad cow problem is under control
The Asahi Shimbun - 10/25/02

New test for deadly mad cow - UCSF researchers identify infection prior to symptoms
San Francisco Chronicle - 10/21/02

Together PCs forecast fold - Computers make light work of predicting protein shape
Nature - 10/21/02 - folding@home website

Tokyo market offering free meat
The Japan Times - 10/20/02

Sporadic CJD and deer meat association in 1993 EU/UK !!
Terry S. Singeltary Sr.

China Invites Nobel Laureate to Help Combat Mad Cow Disease - D. Carleton Gajdusek, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in medicine, was invited by the Beijing Inspection and Quarantine Bureau to act as a consultant for the bureau's mad cow disease lab.
People's Daily Online - 10/19/02

BSE risk may extend to tongue - "Recent tests, several hundred times more sensitive than previous ones, have confirmed the danger"
Guardian Unlimited - 10/19/02

Out of place prions trash cells - Faulty rubbish disposal may be behind mad cow disease and CJD.
Nature - 10/18/02

I have always thought Vicky was killed by what she ate
North Wales Daily Post - 10/14/02

Swiss launch new search for BSE in humans
Swiss Radio International - 10/11/02

BSE meat 'went into millions of burgers'
The Guardian - 10/11/02

Scientists double estimate of BSE-infected cattle - "More than 100 people have died since 1995 of vCJD and the latest estimates suggest the total will grow slowly over the next 20 to 40 years"
The Independent - 10/10/02

Baby food meat risk probed
BBC News - 10/10/02

BSE epidemic 'twice as large'
BBC News - 10/9/02

CJD victim asked 'ever eaten pet food?' - "...tests carried out did not reveal which one of the four strains of CJD had killed his wife, though the most likely was the sporadic form and not the variant strain that is caused by BSE. 
BBC News - 10/4/02

Japan bans imports of deer meat from S Korea
Japan Today - 10/3/02

Mad-cow 'barrier' strengthened
The Advertiser (Australia) - 10/2/02

Prion prevention - Resistance and rapid testing are among potential new tools to combat prion disease
The Scientist - 9/27/02

First Italy Case of Human Madcow Disease Confirmed - "She had not given blood or had organ or tissue grafts and has never traveled to the UK or any other country with reported BSE"
ABC News - 9/26/02

Record number of BSE cases likely this year
Irish Examiner - 9/21/02

120 in every million at risk from vCJD
The Scotsman - 9/20/02

First direct estimate of hidden vCJD cases - "...no one knows what proportion of people incubating vCJD would have detectable levels of prion protein. ..."
New Scientist - 9/20/02

Farmers to sue government over mad cow disease losses
The Japan Times - 9/11/02

Ministry still mystified by BSE outbreak
The Japan Times - 9/11/02

Ambassador embarks on drive to put Aussie beef back on grill
The Japan Times - 9/11/02

Kanagawa to destroy 37 cows in latest BSE case
Japan Today - 9/6/02

BSE risks persist in slaughterhouses
Guardian Unlimited - 9/4/02

Quinn Cement explores meat and bonemeal as fuel
Online Ireland - 8/29/02

Five mad cows likely fed same milk substitute - "The farm's owner told officials he has never fed meat-and-bone meal to his cows"
The Japan Times - 8/24/02

Kanagawa officials inspect dairy farm over mad cow disease
Kyodo News - 8/23/02

Japan confirms 5th case of mad cow disease - "Since October, Japan has screened all cows slaughtered for beef for the disease"
Iowa Farm Bureau - 8/22/02

`No doubt' teenager died from CJD - "It's a bit like Alzheimer's, but accelerated"
This is York - 8/22/02

Tests show Japanese cow has BSE - "If confirmed, it would be Japan's fifth case..."
Swiss Radio International - 8/22/02

Factory farming 'spreading disease around the world'
Guardian Unlimited - 8/21/02

BSE test puts Enfer in the scientific frontline - test generates results within 3 1/2 hours
Irish Examiner - 8/19/02

Britain buys US blood to cut BSE risk for children - "Recent research has indicated that plasma — the liquid component — and red cells may be routes for infection."
Times of London online - 8/16/02

Noxious byproduct of mad cow disease haunts France
Financial Times - 8/9/02

McDonald's, Wendy's Fall on Mad Cow Case
Reuters - 8/8/02

CJD blood transfusion fears rise
The Scotsman -8/3/02

Italy Unveils Cattle Database to Cut BSE Risks
Reuters - 7/31/02

New brain study
The Daily Camera - 7/30/02

Antibiotics May Be Useful Against 'Mad Cow' Disease
Reuters Health - 7/29/02

Tetracyclines affect prion infectivity 
Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences - 7/29/02

Eight more mad cow cases discovered
Online Ireland - 7/27/02

Tissue trade linked to death?
News24.com - 7/24/02

S. Africa Man Dies from CJD After Brain Operation
Reuters - 7/23/02

ANALYSIS - Europe again mulls animal feed as waste disposal - Will Europe's food supply ever be safe
Reuters - 7/22/02

France Finds BSE-Risk Material in Beef
Reuters - 7/19/02

UK's BSE import substance worries - Scientific experts today called for legislation to prevent a substance suspected of causing mad cow disease from being imported in to the UK.
UTV Internet - 7/18/02

On the trail of a killer - "All the evidence points to human BSE coming from beef, but we still haven't proved it,..."
The Guardian - 7/17/02

More Swiss struck by CJD - "While none of the cases are “variant CJD”, which is strongly linked to BSE, one conjecture is that mad cow disease could have spread to humans in another form."
swissinfo/Swiss Radio International - 7/17/02

A real sting in tail
The Scotsman - 7/15/02

CJD, Increased incidence - Switzerland
International Society for Infectious Diseases - 7/14/02

Worrying rise in Swiss CJD - "Sporadic CJD (sCJD) is evenly distributed worldwide with an incidence of around one in a million people. However, this rate doubled in 2001..."
The Lancet - 7/13/02  (registration required) or at Mad Cowboy

Incidence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Switzerland
The Lancet - 7/13/02  (registration required) or at  Mad Cowboy (no graphics)

UK's vCJD epidemic still growing - "...every three months, eight more people go down with the illness and seven die."
New Scientist - 7/11/02

CJD cases 'will increase'
BBC News - 7/10/02

UK: 32 More People May Die in 2002 Due to 'Mad Cow'
Reuters - 7/9/02

National flock screened for scrapie - Genetically superior sheep to found next-generation flock
Nature - 7/5/02

Vaccine tackles BSE-type brain-wasting disease
New Scientist - 7/2/02

More than 1,500 sheep slaughtered at German farm following scrapie infection
Boston Herald - 6/24/02

'Her emails weren't making any sense'
Guardian Unlimited - 6/24/02

Plea over dying daughter - Mother forced to leave US where daughter is dying of vCJD
Guardian Unlimited - 6/24/02

'Mad Cow' Disease Can Show Telltale Signs Early
Reuters - 6/21/02

CJD sufferers ‘were misdiagnosed’ 
Scotsman - 6/21/02

Waste From BSE War Stockpiled In West
Western Daily Press - 6/18/02

Mad cow investigators to visit Netherlands factory
The Japan Times - 6/8/02

Scandals give food for thought
The Yomiuri Shimbun - 6/6/02

Israel reports first case of mad-cow disease
The Globe and Mail - 6/4/02

Golan Heights cow diagnosed with mad cow disease - "The dairy where the dead cow was discovered is a milk dairy..."
Ha`aretz - 6/4/02

Scots pioneer new blood test to detect vCJD - "Since 1990, 111 people have died in the UK from definite or probable vCJD and 1,515 people have been reported to the vCJD Surveillance unit in Edinburgh as suspected of having vCJD." 
The Scotsman - 6/4/02

CJD cases ‘may be missed’
The Scotsman - 6/1/02

Nobel Prize scientist opens city CJD centre
The Scotsman - 6/1/02

Sheep Observed Eating Meat
Animal News Center - 5/24/02

Mass BSE test target seen as hard to meet
The Asahi Shimbun - 5/30/02

Man Gets Fatal Disorder 40 Years After Hormone Use - "...the patient developed CJD 38 years after being exposed to hGH."
ABC News - 5/23/02

'BSE' fears may prompt sausage ban - "...sheep intestines - used in 15% of sausages - should be removed from the food chain. 
BBC News - 5/23/02

Beef find in poultry raises BSE fears - Bovine proteins found in fillets imported from the
Netherlands
Guardian Unlimited - 5/23/02

Scandals force Japanese to watch what they eat 
Asia Times - 5/22/02

CJD fears over growth hormone
BBC News - 5/22/02

Drug saps Alzheimer's - Optimism for chemical that destabilizes harmful protein build-ups
Nature - 5/16/02

Farmers condemn 'licence to kill'
BBC News - 5/15/02

All 4 BSE-infected cows fed same milk substitute
Japan Today - 5/15/02

Vet Found Dead After Mad Cow Failure
Reuters - 5/14/02

Upton withdraws claims linking milk and BSE
The Irish Times - 5/11/02

Sheep and deer eat meat in wild to boost diet
The Independent - 2/18/02

Vaccinations Linked to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Guardian Observer - 10/22/00
United Kingdom Department of Health

Initial Outbreak of Mad Cow Disease Started with Holstein Dairy Cows
Brain disease drives cows wild
New Scientist - November 1987