Animal ID system proves worrisome. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has proposed a program called the National Animal Identification System, which some fear could become mandatory. [News Source]

Study: Deer saliva spreads brain-destroying illnesses. 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]

CWD study mandates feeding, baiting ban (Plymouth Review) NO STATE HAS STUDIED chronic wasting disease - how to control it, how to prevent it, how to treat it - as much as Colorado. And still researchers there were baffled by one essential question: How is the fatal disease spread? [News Source]

GeneThera Orders Multiple State of the Art Robotic PCR Analysis Machines for Use in Their Mad Cow Testing Laboratories (PrimeZone via Yahoo! Finance) GeneThera, Inc. today announced that the Company has purchased three Tecan Freedom EVO 200 systems for installation in the Company's Italian, Mexican and Colorado laboratory facilities. [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]