Cow Suspected Of Having Mad Cow Disease (BSE) In Canada (Medical News Today) Initial tests indicate that a six-year-old cow in Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada, has Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), otherwise known as Mad Cow Disease. Further tests are being carried out at the National Center for Foreign Animal Disease, Winnipeg. We should know what the final results show either today or tomorrow... click link for more info. [News Source]

Mad cow may be B.C.’s first (The Abbotsford News) Testing is being done to confirm if a Fraser Valley cow is the province's first case of mad cow disease. On Thursday, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said confirmatory testing is being conducted on samples from a six-year-old dairy cow from a farm located in central/eastern Fraser Valley. [News Source]

Who’s afraid of a little heat? Maybe a PR makeover would make global warming a little scarier. [News Source]

CWD can be spread through soil. Malformed proteins that cause chronic wasting disease in deer can adhere to minerals in soil and remain deadly, a new UW-Madison study says. [News Source]

Are prions the real cause of BSE and vCJD? Abnormal prions-- misshapen versions of normal brain proteins-- may not be infectious agents, but a consequence of "prion diseases." [News Source]

Mad Cow will feature 11 plays (Orlando Sentinel) Mad Cow Theatre has announced its 2006-07 season at its two-theater space at 105 S. Magnolia Ave. in downtown Orlando. [News Source]

Some ranchers shy on first day since mad cow announcement (AG Weekly) TULIA, Texas -- West Texas rancher Kevin Crooks lost about $1 million in the year following the country's first case of mad cow 18 months ago. If he'd had cattle big enough to sell at the Tulia Livestock Auction on Monday, he wouldn't have brought a one. [News Source]