Latest Mad Cow Disease News

Agriculture Department tries again to increase cattle imports from Canada (WSTM-TV NBC 3)
Monday November 27th 2006, 11:26 pm

WASHINGTON The Agriculture Department is trying again to increase cattle and beef imports from Canada, after worries about mad cow disease derailed earlier efforts. [News Source]

Agriculture Department tries again to increase cattle imports from Canada (NewsChannel 10 Amarillo)
Monday November 27th 2006, 8:17 pm

WASHINGTON The Agriculture Department is trying again to increase cattle and beef imports from Canada, after worries about mad cow disease derailed earlier... [News Source]

U.S. tries again to increase cattle imports from Canada (Great Falls Tribune)
Monday November 27th 2006, 7:21 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Agriculture Department is trying again to increase cattle and beef imports from Canada, reviving a plan that had stalled amid evidence that Canada’s safeguards against mad cow disease were not working. [News Source]

Agriculture Department tries again to increase cattle imports from Canada (KTRE-TV East Texas)
Monday November 27th 2006, 6:58 pm

WASHINGTON The Agriculture Department is trying again to increase cattle and beef imports from Canada, after worries about mad cow disease derailed earlier efforts. [News Source]

Agriculture Department tries again to increase cattle imports from Canada (WTOL 11 Toledo)
Monday November 27th 2006, 6:49 pm

WASHINGTON The Agriculture Department is trying again to increase cattle and beef imports from Canada, after worries about mad cow disease derailed earlier... [News Source]

Agriculture Department tries again to increase cattle imports from… (KXMA-TV Dickinson)
Monday November 27th 2006, 6:40 pm

The Agriculture Department is trying again to increase cattle and beef imports from Canada, after worries about mad cow disease derailed earlier efforts. Authorities have been weighing the risk of importing older Canadian cattle, which carry a h [News Source]

Mad cow risk low for hemophilia patients (AP via Yahoo! News)
Monday November 27th 2006, 4:29 pm

Patients with hemophilia and other blood-clotting disorders face an uncertain though probably very low risk of contracting the human form of mad cow disease from medicines made using donated plasma, health officials said Monday. [News Source]

USDA submits new plan to import older Canadian cattle (Agriculture Online)
Monday November 27th 2006, 2:41 pm

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones) -- The White House Office of Management and Budget has once again been tasked with reviewing the U.S. Department of Agriculture's plan to lift its ban on older Canadian cattle, deemed riskier for mad-cow disease infection than younger animals. [News Source]

FDA To Hold Meeting On Transmission Risk Of Human Mad Cow (Nasdaq)
Monday November 27th 2006, 1:23 pm

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is seeking advice from a panel of experts on how to communicate to the public the risk that products derived from human plasma could transmit the human form of Mad Cow Disease. [News Source]

Case Of Mad Cow Disease Reported In The Czech Republic (CattleNetwork.com)
Monday November 27th 2006, 1:12 pm

PRAGUE (AP)--A new case of mad cow disease has been reported in the Czech Republic , bringing the country's total to 25, an official said Monday. [News Source]