U.S mad cow instances are abnormal, spontaneous cases (EARTHtimes.org) The United States Department of Agriculture claims that the two cases of mad cow disease discovered in Alabama and Texas are not the kind previously found in the U.K., but a variant that occurs of its own accord. [News Source]

Mysterious Strain of Mad Cow Detected in US (TechNewsWorld.com) Two cases of mad cow disease in Texas and Alabama seem to have resulted from a mysterious strain that could appear spontaneously in cattle, researchers say. Government officials are trying to play down differences between the two U.S. cases and the mad cow epidemic that has led to the slaughter of thousands of cattle in Britain since the 1980s. [News Source]

Atypical Mad Cow Disease Cases Baffle US Scientists (Medical News Today) Texas and Alabama have two new cases of Mad Cow Disease (BSE) which are baffling scientists who say they could be of a different strain and may appear spontaneously. Authorities are at a loss as to how the animals got infected. The Texas case was identified last year, the Alabama one this year. [click link for full article] [News Source]

Dairy farms face scrutiny. The herd, their smell and the amount of waste they produce are at the center of a controversy produced by concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs. [News Source]

Mad Cow Disease in U.S. Come From Mysterious Strain (Fox News) Two cases of mad cow disease in Texas and Alabama resulted from a mysterious strain in cattle. [News Source]

Two U.S. ‘mad cow’ cases don’t fit profile. Two cases of "mad cow" disease in Texas and Alabama seem to have resulted from a mysterious strain that could appear spontaneously in cattle, researchers say. [News Source]

USDA considers label for grass-fed beef. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing to allow people who feed their beef cattle exclusively on grass in Nebraska and other states to apply a special “grass-fed” label to their meat. [News Source]

Unraveling Alzheimer’s: Clues May Be Found Visualizing Plaques In Human Brain, Mad Cow-type Diseases (Science Daily) An exciting new tracer allows visualization of abnormal protein deposits -- called amyloid plaques -- in human diseases like Alzheimer's and Creutzfeldt-Jakob and in prion diseases in animals like scrapie (similar to mad cow disease), according to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and CHRU Tours in France. [News Source]

Mad Cow in Texas, Alabama appears to be rare, mysterious strain (WHO-TV Des Moines) WASHINGTON Researchers say two cases of mad cow disease in Texas and Alabama seem to have resulted from a mysterious strain that could appear spontaneously in cattle. [News Source]

Experts study rare strain of mad cow disease (Independent Online) Two cases of mad cow disease in Texas and Alabama seem to have resulted from a mysterious strain of the disease that could appear spontaneously in cattle, according to researchers. [News Source]