PAKISTAN BANS IMPORT OF ANIMALS FROM 12 WESTERN COUNTRIES (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance) Food Pakistan on Tuesday banned the import of live animals from some 12 Western countries, including UK, France, Germany, Denmark, Italy and Spain on the grounds of reported Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) infection, known as mad cow disease. [News Source]

Pakistan Bans Import Of Animals From 12 Western Countries (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 News) Pakistan on Tuesday banned the import of live animals from some 12 Western countries, including UK, France, Germany, Denmark, Italy and Spain on the grounds of reported Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) infection, known as mad cow disease. [News Source]

Rachel’s Blog (WDBJ 7 Roanoke) Holy Cow, do cows sure seem to like me! It all started two years ago when I ventured over to a Virginia Tech farm to do a story on mad cow disease. We walked into a gate where at least 30 cows were gathered. It was me, my photographer and a researcher. As soon as we walked in the cows walked over. [News Source]

Omrix rises as FDA tries to restrict mad-cow disease (Globes Online) Omrix would not be affected by a possible ban on bovine-derived thrombin. [News Source]

Illegally fed cattle slaughtered. A herd of nearly 70 cows is being slaughtered after a farmer illegally gave them rabbit and guinea pig food containing pulverised cattle bones. [News Source]

When Good Cows Go Mad (Wired News) Wouldn't it be great if scientists found a way to breed cattle that are immune to mad cow disease? Be careful what you wish for. Commentary by Lore Sjöberg. [News Source]