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Missouri firm recalls over 4,000 pounds of beef over mad cow concerns

(Reuters) - A Missouri slaughter house recalled 4,012 pounds (1,800 kg) of fresh beef over concerns that nervous tissue that could contain the "mad cow" disease pathogen may not have been properly..
Reuters on June 12, 2014

Stanley Prusiner: 'A Nobel prize doesn't wipe the scepticism away'

The neurologist whose discovery of the agent that causes CJD reveals why his finding was greeted with disbelief A scientific truth triumphs not by convincing its opponents but because its opponents..
guardian.co.uk on May 24, 2014

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A Missouri meat company recalled 4,000 pounds of beef due to a clerical error that could cause mad cow disease outbreak.
Source: Newsy - on June 14, 2014

Council warning if a mad cow attacks you

EAST Sussex County Council has taken the bizarre step of warning people about walking in fields full of cows.The authority released a list of what should and should not be done if walkers encounter the..
Kent and Sussex Courier on May 16, 2014

Brazil confirms second case of atypical mad cow disease

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil has confirmed a second case of atypical mad cow disease, a year after several countries banned Brazilian beef imports when a similar case of the disease was confirmed.
Reuters on May 10, 2014

Brazil investigates possible mad cow case

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil is investigating a potential case of atypical mad cow disease, the agriculture ministry said on Thursday, just over a year after several countries banned Brazilian beef..
Reuters on April 24, 2014

VIDEO: Lab cuts 'threat to human health'

Cuts to animal health surveillance mean Britain is at a much greater risk of outbreaks of devastating diseases such as "mad cow disease", experts say.
BBC News on April 1, 2014

Mother-of-four, Sandi Kennedy, dies from ultra-rare human version of Mad Cow Disease

Sandi Kennedy, of Kennebunk, Maine, first became ill in November. Her health deteriorated rapidly and doctors struggled to find what was wrong with her.
MailOnline on March 5, 2014

The welfare dependents the government loves? Rich landowners | George Monbiot

Uncapped, almost unconditional, the vast sums of public money we give to farmers buy only destruction Just as mad cow disease exposed us to horrors – feeding cattle on the carcasses of infected..
guardian.co.uk on March 3, 2014

North Carolina hospital 'exposes patients to human form of 'mad cow' disease'

The patients were operated on at the Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem with tools that had been used on a man suspected of having CJD.
MailOnline on February 11, 2014