Lawmakers take action on CJD. t was late last year that 13 Investigates showed how a horrible brain-eating disease has killed more than one hundred Hoosiers. [News Source]

Swift’s assets may be sold separately, analysts speculate. The nation's meatpackers are recovering from a setback when key export markets were closed after the first U.S. case of mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, was reported in December 2003. [News Source]

Some like it raw. The worst E. coli infections this century did not directly involve beef - produce is now becoming one of the primary vehicles for E. coli infections. [News Source]

Filter removes mad cow proteins from blood (New Scientist) Tests suggest the new device could prevent transmission of deadly prion disease via blood transfusions [News Source]

Blood risk of vCJD highlighted (New Scientist) The tragedy of mad cow disease may not yet be over - a third person in the UK has died from vCJD after a blood transfusion [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]

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]

BSE may have come from dead people (New Scientist) British cattle could have caught mad cow disease after eating the remains of people who died of the human equivalent, CJD, a new study suggests [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]