Bovine tuberculosis case puts B.C., Alberta farms under quarantine (Windsor Star) A case of bovine tuberculosis has been discovered on a single farm in British Columbia, prompting more than two dozens farms in that province and Alberta to be placed under quarantine to keep the disease from spreading. [News Source]

Bovine tuberculosis case puts B.C., Alberta farms under quarantine (Vancouver Province) A case of bovine tuberculosis has been discovered on a single farm in British Columbia, prompting more than two dozens farms in that province and Alberta to be placed under quarantine to keep the disease from spreading. [News Source]

Scientist preducts future mad-cow epidemic (EARTHtimes.org) A British scientist predicts thousands of future deaths from mad cow disease caused by contaminated beef eaten between 1980 and 1986. John Collinge of University College in London said that bovine spongiform encephalopathy and variant Cruzfeldt-Jakob dise... [News Source]

Scientist preducts future mad-cow epidemic (UPI) A British scientist predicts thousands of future deaths from mad cow disease caused by contaminated beef eaten between 1980 and 1986. [News Source]

‘Opportunity to take the bull by the horns’ (CNews) David Westaway packed up his life in Toronto and moved to Calgary a year ago. Westaway, one of the country's top researchers in neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, said it was an opportunity too good to pass up. [News Source]

A pioneer refuses to fade away. Forty years ago, Harold Hay came up with a way to heat and cool homes using water and the sun. At 98, he's still trying to get the world to notice. [News Source]

Britain ‘faces CJD epidemic’ from infected beef. Britain faces the possibility of a major epidemic of lethal brain disease as a result of the consumption years ago of beef contaminated with mad cow disease, BSE, according to Britain's leading expert on vCJD, or "human BSE". [News Source]

Britain ‘faces CJD epidemic’ from infected beef. The nation faces the possibility of a major epidemic of lethal brain disease as a result of the consumption years ago of beef contaminated with mad cow disease, BSE, according to Britain's leading expert on vCJD, or "human BSE". [News Source]

Unique discovery (Herald Journal) Senior Research Associate, Venkatraman Siddharthan, looks through a microscope while working in the lab at USU on Wednesday. (Meegan M. Reid/Herald Journal) [News Source]

Disclosure an issue in farm debate (The Bismarck Tribune) WASHINGTON - Journalists and government watchdog groups say that crucial food safety information could be kept from the public under a farm bill the Senate is debating. [News Source]