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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease  
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Latest News  

Apr 24
New Item FDA broadens BSE-related feed ban

Feb 29
New Item USDA vows to enforce humane practices at meat plants

Feb 18
New Item Animal-cruelty probe leads to US's biggest meat recall

Jan 9
New Item Possible vCJD case in UK may signal more to come

Dec 18
New Item Canada reports its 11th BSE case

Sep 18
New Item US to end BSE-related ban on older Canadian cattle

Jul 13
New Item Canada widens BSE-related feed ban; US still pondering

May 4
New Item Canada reports 10th case of BSE

Apr 4, 2007
New Item Canada finishes probe of 9th BSE case

Jan 22, 2007
New Item Fourth vCJD case linked with blood transfusion in UK

Jan 5, 2007
New Item US wants to end BSE-linked ban on older Canadian cattle

Dec 21, 2006
New Item Canada reaches dead end in BSE probe

Dec 5, 2006
New Item Saudi man has third vCJD case found in US

Oct 11, 2006
New Item Chronic wasting disease may spread via saliva

Aug 25, 2006
New Item Canada says feed mill error suspected in BSE case

Aug 23, 2006
New Item Canada finds 8th case of BSE

Jul 20, 2006
New Item USDA to cut back BSE testing program

Jul 14, 2006
New Item Canada confirms 7th BSE case; US joins probe

Jul 11, 2006
New Item Blood test for silent phase of prion disease reported

Jul 10, 2006
New Item Canada reports potential 7th case of BSE

Jul 5, 2006
New Item Canada reports its sixth BSE case

Jun 29, 2006
New Item Kuru study implies risk of waves of vCJD cases

Jun 27, 2006
New Item Canada to expand feed ban to prevent BSE

Jun 21, 2006
New Item Japan to end BSE-based ban on US beef again

Jun 20, 2006
New Item Canada says latest BSE case probably feed-related

Jun 12, 2006
New Item Study implies broader risk for vCJD in UK

May 8, 2006
New Item USDA closes probe into Alabama BSE case

May 1, 2006
New Item USDA seeks Canadian-born cattle in BSE probe

Apr 28, 2006
New Item USDA estimates nation has 4 to 7 BSE cases

Apr 17, 2006
New Item Tests confirm 5th BSE case in Canadian cow

Apr 14, 2006
New Item Canada may have another BSE case

Apr 7, 2006
New Item USDA sets 2009 goal for livestock tracking system

Mar 23, 2006
New Item Global BSE cases declining fast, FAO says

Mar 13, 2006
New Item Alabama cow positive for BSE

Jan 31, 2006
New Item Deer muscle transmits prion disease to altered mice

Jan 23, 2006
New Item Canada reports its fourth BSE case

New Item Japan again bans US beef over BSE fears

      
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New Item Antihypertensive drug guanabenz is active in vivo against both yeast and mammalian prions
From PLoS ONE, published online Apr 23

 
New Item Two cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease reported in Spain in 2007 and 2008
From Apr 10 Eurosurveillance

 
New Item Evidence of scrapie transmission via milk
From BMC Vet Res, published online Apr 8

 
New Item Rapid typing of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy strains with differential ELISA
From Apr Emerg Infect Dis

 
New Item Evaluation of the human transmission risk of an atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy prion strain
From Apr J Virol

 
New Item The efficacy of tetracyclines in peripheral and intracerebral prion infection
From Mar 26 PLoS ONE

 
New Item Beyond PrPres type 1/type 2 dichotomy in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
From Mar 14 PLoS Pathog

 
New Item Kuru prions and sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease prions have equivalent transmission properties in transgenic and wild-type mice
From Proc Natl Acad Sci, published online Mar 3

 
New Item Milk replacers and bovine spongiform encephalopathy in calves, Japan
Letter from Emerg Infect Dis, published online Feb 26

 
New Item Atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathies, France, 2001-2007
From Emerg Infect Dis, published online Jan 22

 
New Item Evaluation of drugs for treatment of prion infections of the central nervous system
From Feb J Gen Virol

 
New Item The elk PRNP codon 132 polymorphism controls cervid and scrapie prion propagation
From Feb J Gen Virol

 
New Item Prominent and persistent extraneural infection in human PrP transgenic mice infected with variant CJD
From Jan 9 PLoS ONE

 
New Item Prion strain discrimination in cell culture: the cell panel assay
From Dec 26 Proc Natl Acad Sci

 
New Item Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, prion protein gene codon 129VV, and a novel PrPSc type in a young British woman
From Dec Arch Neurol

 
New Item Decontamination of surgical instruments from prions. II. In vivo findings with a model system for testing the removal of scrapie infectivity from steel surfaces
From Jan 2008 J Gen Virol

 
New Item Time-course studies of 14-3-3 protein isoforms in cerebrospinal fluid and brain of primates after oral or intracerebral infection with bovine spongiform encephalopathy agent
From Dec J Gen Virol

 
New Item Demographic risk factors for classical and atypical scrapie in Great Britain
From Dec J Gen Virol

 
New Item Prion strain- and species-dependent effects of antiprion molecules in primary neuronal cultures
From Dec J Virol

 
New Item A general model of prion strains and their pathogenicity
From Nov 9 Science

 
New Item A case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease associated with a dura mater graft in the United States
From Nov Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

 
New Item Direct detection of soil-bound prions
From PLoS ONE, published online Oct 24

 
New Item Cyclodextrins inhibit replication of scrapie prion protein in cell culture
From Oct J Virol

 
New Item Relevance of the regional lymph node in scrapie pathogenesis after peripheral infection of hamsters
From BMC Vet Res, published online Sep 25

 
New Item Enzymatic detergent treatment protocol that reduces protease-resistant prion protein load and infectivity from surgical-steel monofilaments contaminated with a human-derived prion strain
From Oct J Gen Virol

 
New Item Urinary excretion and blood levels of prions in scrapie-infected hamsters
From Oct J Gen Virol

 
New Item On prions, proteasomes, and mad cows
From Sep 13 N Engl J Med

 
New Item Experimental transmission of atypical scrapie to sheep
From BMC Vet Res, published online Aug 28

 
New Item An economic chronology of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in North America
From USDA Economic Research Service

 
 

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