Mad-Cow Seen Removed From Spain By 2010 (CattleNetwork.com) MADRID (AP)-- Spain hopes to eliminate mad cow disease from the country by 2010, the country's top veterinary officer said Friday. [News Source]

South Korea bans Campbellsburg farm’s beef (Louisville Courier-Journal) South Korea said Friday it would suspend beef imports from Creekstone Farms, which has its farm in Campbellsburg, Ky., after a bone was found in a shipment, a violation of a mad cow disease agreement. The agriculture ministry said in a statement that the shipment originated from Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, which has its slaughterhouse Arkansas City, Kan. A person answering the phone at [News Source]

Seoul bans sale of US beef with bone fragments. The Lorean government said it will not allow the first batch of beef shipped from the United States to be sold in the country after a bone fragment was detected in a package. [News Source]

South Korea rejects first U.S. beef since ending ban. South Korea, the third-largest buyer of U.S. beef in 2003, rejected the first shipment of the meat to arrive since lifting a three-year ban imposed on mad-cow fears, saying it found a bone fragment that violated an agreement. [News Source]

Beef banned amid mad cow fears. South Korea on Friday banned the first shipment of United States beef to arrive following a three-year ban, after a small piece of bone was found in violation of an agreement to combat mad cow disease. [News Source]

Drought, trade restrictions eat last year’s farm profits (Canadian Business) OTTAWA (CP) - Canadian farmers made their smallest real profits since 2003 last year as they came off two years or more of drought and mad-cow-related trade restrictions. [News Source]

Should people be tested for mad cow disease? (New Scientist) Would you want to know if you were a carrier of vCJD - the human form of BSE - even though there is currently no cure? [News Source]

Two vaccines show promise against prion disease (New Scientist) The treatments combated infectious prions in mice in different ways, raising hopes of a cure for the deadly human version of "mad cow disease" [News Source]

S. Korean inspectors find bone fragments in U.S. beef. South Korean inspectors have found bone fragments in a U.S. beef shipment, a government official said Friday, raising concerns about the safety of beef imported from the country. [News Source]

S. Korea to stop shipments from Kansas slaughterhouse. South Korea said Friday it would suspend imports of U.S. beef from a Kansas slaughterhouse after government inspectors found a bone in a shipment. [News Source]