Britons fear new ‘mad cow’ variant (UPI) A woman who died in England from "mad cow" disease had a genotype different than the particular genetic profile of those normally susceptible to the disease. [News Source]

New vCJD Case Raises Fear Of Mad Cow Disease Resurge In The UK (Medical News Today) Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) has killed a 39 year old woman in the UK and triggered renewed fears that a new surge of mad cow disease is on the way. However, experts are saying there is no need to panic and there is no evidence of a new wave of BSE or mad cow disease. [click link for full article] [News Source]

Deadly vCJD makes a comeback in Britain (News-Medical-Net) A new report has reignited fears over another possible outbreak of the deadly Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) in Britain. [News Source]

New Variation of CJD has Doctors’ Attention (EARTHtimes.org) The journal Archives of Neurology and the New Scientist magazine have both reported that the genetic type of a 40-year-old woman who has possibly died from CJD (mad cow disease) was unlike that of any of the other patient who had contracted the disease through eating infected beef. [News Source]

New wave of human ‘mad cow’ tragedies feared (Yorkshire Post Today) A NEW wave of deaths from the human form of "mad cow" disease is feared after scientists found a type of variant CJD never seen before. (03/01/2008 07:12:59) [News Source]

Fear over mad cow mystery (Daily Mirror) A woman has died from a suspected new form of human mad cow disease, raising fears of a wave of deaths.    [News Source]

Auction yards fight Canadian border cattle rule (Rapid City Journal) Five South Dakota auction yards recently hosted fundraisers that generated more than $50,000 to support a legal battle to stop older Canadian cattle from coming into the United States. [News Source]