BSE could incubate in people 50 years or more before symptoms show: study. It could take half a century or more for someone infected with prions - the cause of mad cow-like diseases - to start showing symptoms, say researchers, who drew that conclusion after studying a similar illness among Papua New Guinean people who once feasted on their dead. [News Source]

vCJD ‘may develop over 50 years’. A disease linked to cannibalism has given clues about how long mad cow disease can lurk in the human body before it develops into vCJD. [News Source]

Netherlands reports second case of human mad cow disease. The Dutch health ministry reported a second case of a patient who suffers from the human form of mad cow disease. [News Source]

Mad cow disease could be dormant. People could be infected with the human form of mad cow disease for more than 50 years without developing the illness, which means the size of a potential epidemic may be underestimated, UK scientists said on Friday. [News Source]

Proposal would unfreeze the secrecy. Unlike other unsafe products that are publicly recalled, meat processing companies, meat distributors and retail outlets don’t have to tell you or the media about the source of contaminated meat. [News Source]

Study suggests more deaths from mad cow disease. The long lives that some former cannibals enjoy before succumbing to a brain-wasting disease suggest that many more humans will eventually die of mad cow disease, scientists said Thursday. [News Source]

Human mad cow epidemic ‘could be bigger than feared’ (Guardian Unlimited) Far more people in the UK could be infected with the human form of mad cow disease than estimated, scientists warn. [News Source]

Cannibalism Study May Hold Clues for Mad-Cow Disease (Update2) (Bloomberg.com) June 23 (Bloomberg) -- A study of an epidemic caused by cannibalism indicates the human form of mad-cow disease may incubate for more than 50 years before developing into the fatal illness, researchers said in a medical journal. [News Source]

Cannibalism Study May Hold Clues for Mad-Cow Disease (Update2) (Bloomberg.com) June 23 (Bloomberg) -- A study of an epidemic caused by cannibalism indicates the human form of mad-cow disease may incubate for more than 50 years before developing into the fatal illness, researchers said in a medical journal. [News Source]

Human Mad-Cow Disease May Be Latent for 50 Years (Update1) (Bloomberg.com) June 23 (Bloomberg) -- Patients may develop the human form of the mad-cow disease more than 50 years after being infected with the fatal illness, researchers said in a medical journal. [News Source]