2nd Dutch dies of human variant of mad cow disease (People’s Daily) A Dutch teenager had died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a human variant of mad cow disease, the local Expatica news service reported on Thursday. [News Source]

Michigan, Ohio deer deemed safe to eat. Hunters need not worry about contracting a brain-wasting disease from deer when the Michigan deer firearms season opens today, officials said. [News Source]

Country-of-origin labels coming soon in Montana. Montana consumers soon will know the nationality of those burgers and steaks in grocery-store display cases. [News Source]

Alzheimer’s ’seeded’ like mad cow disease (New Scientist) As with BSE, it now seems that malformed proteins "seed" the formation of plaques in the brain of people with Alzheimer's disease [News Source]

US ‘rediscovers’ its second mad cow (New Scientist) A sample retest confirms BSE in a cow thought to have been free of the disease in November 2004 - it could be the US's first native born case [News Source]

First human case of mad cow disease in Japan (New Scientist) A man is confirmed to have died of vCJD in Japan - officials claim a brief trip to the UK 16 years ago is to blame [News Source]

Canada discovers its third mad cow (New Scientist) This is the fourth "mad cow" detected in North America, and raises concerns over whether some regions are looking hard enough for BSE [News Source]

Mad cow quarantine in Canada extended (New Scientist) Nine herds are now isolated as investigators scramble to find the cause of a case of BSE - and whether any other animals are infected [News Source]

Abe to Meet Bush for Talks on Disarming N. Korea (Update2) (Bloomberg.com) Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe goes to Vietnam this week for his first summit with U.S. President George W. Bush, and Kim Jong Il, not Elvis Presley, will be on the agenda. [News Source]