Meat Industry Getting Leaner (Investor’s Business Daily via Yahoo! News) It's fitting, perhaps, that the companies in the meat industry are reacting to stress by eating each other. [News Source]

Study sounds CWD alarm. Deer can spread chronic wasting disease through saliva and blood, which means no part of an infected animal can be considered safe to eat, Colorado researchers discovered. [News Source]

‘Mad deer’ probably spread brain disease through saliva. Deer probably spread a brain-destroying illness called chronic wasting disease through their saliva, concludes a study that finally pins down a long-suspected culprit. [News Source]

BSE likely came from feed (Iowa Farmer) OTTAWA (AP) -- An Alberta, Canada, dairy cow that was diagnosed last month with BSE (mad-cow disease) probably contracted the disease from contaminated feed, federal regulators said. [News Source]

PlayStation’s serious side: Fighting disease (Financial Express) Kids aiming to persuade their parents to buy the PlayStation 3 have some new ammunition -- donating their PS3's down time to researchers could help cure Alzheimer's, Parkinson's or mad cow disease. [News Source]

Study: ‘Mad deer’ spread through saliva (Provo Daily Herald) WASHINGTON -- Deer probably spread a brain-destroying illness called chronic wasting disease through their saliva, concludes a study that finally pins down a long-suspected culprit. The key was that Colorado researchers tested some special deer. Chronic wasting disease is in the same family of fatal brain illnesses as mad cow disease and its human equivalent. [News Source]

FINDINGS (Washington Post) Deer afflicted with chronic wasting disease (CWD), a cousin of mad cow disease that has not been found in humans, can pass the disease to one another through saliva and blood, researchers report. [News Source]