Netherlands reports mad cow case (Channel NewsAsia) THE HAGUE: The Dutch ministry of Agriculture announced on Friday that it has discovered mad cow disease in a seven-year-old cow. It is the 83rd case of mad cow disease, or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in the Netherlands since 1997 but the first since March 2006. [News Source]

Dental patients in CJD alert (Daily Telegraph) Dentists have been told not to re-use instruments for root canal work because they could infect patients with the human form of mad cow disease. [News Source]