A variety of threats to our health lurk nearby. While the focus is on the effects of climate change, there are so many health threats around the world and many potential epidemics are but a plane or boat ride away. [News Source]

Family-run farm is facing threat of extinction; dire warning comes from national union coordinator. Grant Robertson, coordinator of the Ontario National Farmers Union, said the family-run farm is facing extinction unless something is done about it. [News Source]

Two die of vCJD in Spain (Channel 4)

Two people have died from the human form of mad cow disease in Spain.

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Two die in Spain of mad cow disease (EARTHtimes.org) Madrid - Two people have died in Spain of the human variant of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, sources of the Health Ministry said Monday. The two victims, aged 26 and 50 years old, died in December and Febr... [News Source]

Mad cow disease kills two in Spain (CNN.com) Mad cow disease has killed two people since December in the Castilla Leon region north of Madrid, a regional health authority spokeswoman told CNN Monday. [News Source]

Two deaths in Spain linked to mad cow disease: authorities (AFP via Yahoo! News) Two people have died in central Spain after contracting the human form of mad cow disease, regional authorities said Monday, in what would be the first such cases in the country in three years. [News Source]

Two deaths in Spain linked to mad cow disease: authorities (AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) Two people have died in central Spain after contracting the human form of mad cow disease, regional authorities said Monday, in what would be the first such cases in the country in three years. [News Source]

Two die in Spain from human form of mad cow disease (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Two people have died in Spain from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the human form of mad cow disease, the health department at the regional Castilla-Leon government said on Monday. [News Source]

Mad Cow Disease Kills Two In Spain (SkyNews via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) Two people have died in Spain from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the human form of mad cow disease. [News Source]

Spain links two deaths to ‘mad cow’ disease (Independent) Two people have died in Spain from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the human form of mad cow disease, the health department at the regional Castilla-Leon government said today. [News Source]