Responding to health threats. At the 13th International Congress on Infectious Diseases (ICID) held recently in Kuala Lumpur, a top US health official talks about the challenges in global health protection against infectious diseases in the 21st century. [News Source]

Livestock Highlights: BSE Lawsuit, CRP Land , Live Cattle (CattleNetwork.com) WINNIPEG (Dow Jones)--A proposed C$7 billion class-action lawsuit on behalf of roughly 100,000 farmers hurt by the arrival in Canada of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, otherwise known as mad cow disease, will be allowed to go forward, according to a news report from the Canada Press Thursday. [News Source]