Levels Of Prion Protein In Brain May Not Be Reliable Marker For Disease (Medical News Today) Rapid diagnostic testing used to check for the presence of prion diseases such as "mad cow disease" might fail to identify some highly infectious samples, researchers have found. [click link for full article] [News Source]

Rockland AM Report (The Journal News) 4:07 p.m., Tallman, false alarm, malfunction. 6:14 p.m., Monsey, electrical problem. [News Source]

Premise registration continues on plan (Iowa Farmer) Editor’s note: On Nov.. 22, the Bush administration pledged not to make a planned National Animal Identification System mandatory. However, that has not derailed movement toward a voluntary tracking system. [News Source]