Sheep kill planned after rare disease found The Wyoming rancher's case is even more rare: Fewer than 300 cases worldwide have been recorded of the "Nor98-like" strain of scrapie, so-named because it was first diagnosed in Norway in 1998. [News Source]

Fear of brain-wasting prions halts Edmonton anti-diabetes islet transplants. Concerns that brain-wasting prions could have infected patients being treated for diabetes have put world-leading islet transplants being done in Alberta on hold temporarily. [News Source]

Dutch report mad cow case . The Dutch ministry of Agriculture has announced that it has discovered mad cow disease in a seven-year-old cow. [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]

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]

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]

Canada discovers its third mad cow (New Scientist) This is the fourth "mad cow" detected in North America, and raises concerns over whether some regions are looking hard enough for BSE [News Source]

Mad cow quarantine in Canada extended (New Scientist) Nine herds are now isolated as investigators scramble to find the cause of a case of BSE - and whether any other animals are infected [News Source]

Dutch report mad cow case (Sunday Times) THE HAGUE - The Dutch ministry of Agriculture has announced 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]