Travels With Goats, and Their Humans (New York Times) Genetic mixing in goats, squid sending hidden messages, how deer spread disease and more. [News Source]

Test shows CWD in elk north of Medicine Bow (Jackson Hole News) Wyoming Game and Fish officials announced Sunday that the first elk from a hunt area in the Shirley Mountain region north of Medicine Bow tested positive for chronic wasting disease. [News Source]

Taiwan halts Canadian beef from U.S. Taiwan is no longer accepting imports of Canadian beef products from the United States, according to a news release from R-CALF USA. [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]

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]

Neogen Corporation: A Food and Cattle Safety-Testing, E coli Play (SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance) Ann Sosnowski submits: In mid-August, E. coli 0157:H7 infected leafy greens from Natural Selection Foods hit 26 states, caused 187 illnesses, killed three people and put 97 people in the hospital. [News Source]

In the Jungles of Brooklyn, Nothing Can Stop Them (New York Times) I spent four years in Africa, but I didn?t really understand the law of the jungle until I moved to Brooklyn. [News Source]

A Sickness Unto Death (New York Times) D. T. Max investigates the horrors of faulty prions, from fatal insomnia to mad cow disease. [News Source]