Kansan contracts disease related to mad cow (The Wichita Eagle) Health officials think a Kansas man has died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a rare disease that affects the central nervous system and turns brain tissue spongy. One variation of the disease is the so-called mad cow disease but the human form of that has never been seen in the United States in someone who hadn't had exposure elsewhere. Because the incubation period for the disease is years or ... [News Source]

In defense of cloning. A University of Maryland professor who helped the FDA assess the potential dangers of selling meat and milk from cloned animals maintains that such food is safe. [News Source]

Psychiatrist studies wounded healers (AP via Yahoo! News) "When Doctors Become Patients" (Oxford University Press, 333 pages, $35), by Robert Klitzman: At 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, Robert Klitzman's sister, Karen, called her best friend from her office on the 105th floor of the World Trade Center. No one ever heard from her again. Grief-stricken, Klitzman became depressed, but he didn't realize it for a while. He is a psychiatrist. He couldn't ... [News Source]

Farmers fear a barnyard Big Brother. The Bush administration's National Animal Identification System is meant to provide a tool to track disease outbreaks within 48 hours, whether natural or the work of a bioterrorist. But it is spawning a grass-roots revolt. [News Source]

Examiner.com Related Articles: (The San Francisco Examiner) But now the lightly smoked sausage has fallen victim to European Union restrictions on the import of cows intestines from Brazil because of fears over mad cow disease - bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE. [News Source]

Examiner.com Related Articles: (The San Francisco Examiner) But now the lightly smoked sausage has fallen victim to European Union restrictions on the import of cows intestines from Brazil because of fears over mad cow disease - bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE. [News Source]

Farmers fear a barnyard Big Brother (Los Angeles Times) A federal database of animals to fight disease outbreaks is a threat to privacy and family operations, critics say. After days of parading around her beefy black steer in the dung-scented August heat at the Colorado State Fair, Brandi Calderwood made the final competition. For months, the 16-year-old worked from dawn well past dusk, fitting in the work around school, to feed, train and clean ... [News Source]

Stock show welcomes Canadian animals back (BizJournals) Four years after a Canadian-born cow in Washington state was discovered carrying the deadly mad cow disease, the nation's beef industry and its export market have largely returned to normal. [News Source]

Stock show benefits from resolved border battle (9 News Denver) DENVER – Canadian cattle are back at the National Western Stock Show for the first time since 2003, when concerns about Mad Cow Disease caused a border shutdown. [News Source]