Tests: CWD numbers steady. The most recent tests for chronic wasting disease among deer and elk populations in the Black Hills show the continued presence of the fatal brain disorder but no sign that it is increasing or spreading rapidly. [News Source]

Diplomatic row over raw meat shipped from Matthews plant to Continent. Six lorryloads of turkey meat sent to Hungary last week from the Bernard Matthews plant at the centre of the avian flu outbreak were raw and may have returned the H5N1 virus to Central Europe. [News Source]

Come clean call to bird-flu ministers. A Welsh farmers' leader has accused the UK Government of frightening double standards over the way it is handling the bird flu outbreak at the Bernard Matthews farm in Suffolk. [News Source]

Turkey plant to resume production. Europe's largest turkey producer, Bernard Matthews, will reopen the turkey slaughter house on Tuesday that was shut down after a bird flu outbreak. [News Source]

Come clean call to bird-flu ministers. A Welsh farmers' leader has accused the UK Government of frightening double standards over the way it is handling the bird flu outbreak at the Bernard Matthews farm in Suffolk. [News Source]

Chinese poultry imports proposed. The U.S. Department of Agriculture wants to let China, where 14 people have died of bird flu since 2003, sell its cooked chickens to American consumers. [News Source]

Ninth case of mad cow disease confirmed in Canada (Iowa Farmer) OTTAWA n The United States says it will dispatch a specialist to help investigate Canada's latest case of mad cow, but that Washington did not expect the new finding to hurt trade between the two countries. [News Source]

9th case of mad cow disease confirmed in Canada (AG Weekly) OTTAWA (AP) — The United States said Thursday it would dispatch a specialist to help investigate Canada’s latest case of mad cow, but that Washington did not expect the new finding to hurt trade between the two countries. [News Source]