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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 2 weeks ago

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

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	'Ukraine, the escalation' 05:20 Escalating tension in Ukraine dominates the French front pages but not entirely. Le Parisien-Aujourd'hui-en-France looks at the mad cow crisis of two decades ago as a French court rules that it is not.. Source: tvnportal - 3 days ago
	Lab Cuts 'Threat to Human Health' 01:29 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. Source: BBC News - 2 weeks ago

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

18 North Carolina patients may have been exposed to rare brain disease

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C./NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eighteen neurological patients in North Carolina may have been exposed to an incurable and fatal disorder similar to "mad cow" disease while undergoing surgery..
Reuters on February 11, 2014

Why do we have such a problem with being alone?

Personal freedom has never been more celebrated, yet we are terrified of being alone, and regard those who choose to be so with suspicion. Sara Maitland on the joy of solitude I live alone. I have..
guardian.co.uk on January 11, 2014

Which state secrets will be revealed next?

From the Brixton riots to Lockerbie, classified details of intriguing events in recent history are being revealed sooner than expected This week's revelations about Margaret Thatcher's meetings and..
guardian.co.uk on January 5, 2014

CJD: Mother Calls For Widespread Test

A mother whose son died from the human form of mad cow disease is appealing for help in developing a widely used test for it.
Sky News on January 5, 2014