Rice, in Seoul, tells South Koreans U.S. beef is safe. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tried to reassure South Koreans that American beef is safe to eat after a deal to resume imports from the U.S. sparked a political crisis for South Korean President Lee Myung Bak. [News Source]

Rice urges South Koreans to eat US beef. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice insisted Saturday that U.S. beef is safe to eat and urged South Koreans to accept their government's decision to lift a ban on the products. [News Source]

Rice urges Koreans to trust govt over US beef. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged South Koreans Saturday to trust official assurances that US beef is safe, following weeks of sometimes violent protests against the resumption of the imports. [News Source]

Latest mad cow born 5 years after ban. Canada's 13th case of mad cow disease, discovered earlier this week, was born more than five years after Canada banned feed practices thought to cause the disease. [News Source]

No Reason To Fear Mad Cow Just Yet, Peel Region Medical Officer Says (CityNews) One form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, discovered this week in a Mississauga man, occurs in humans spontaneously and has nothing to do with beef consumption. [News Source]

Could Peel man have ‘mad cow disease’? (Mississauga News) Doctors suspect a Peel Region man being cared for at Mississauga's Trillium Health Centre may be suffering from Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), often linked to 'mad cow disease'. [News Source]

Latest mad cow born 5 years after ban (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Canada's 13th case of mad cow disease, discovered earlier this week, was born more than five years after Canada banned feed practices thought to cause the disease, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said on Friday. [News Source]