Wildlife disease debate: to act or to react? Now that Wyoming Game and Fish scientists say chronic wasting disease is headed to Jackson Hole, hunters, outfitters and wildlife watchers are unsure how the always-fatal, seemingly unstoppable neurological disease will affect the local elk population and the industries those elk support. [News Source]

The media’s addiction to controversy can seriously damage your health. The rate of MMR vaccination fell from 91% in 1997 to 80% in 2003. The reason, almost certainly, is that parents were frightened by a possible MMR "link" to autism. [News Source]

Mad cow rules hit sperm banks’ patrons. Restrictions on sperm from Europe are among steps the U.S. government took in the wake of the mad cow outbreak in Europe in the late 1990s. In rare cases, people who eat meat from infected animals develop the fatal, untreatable illness called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. [News Source]

New Test Scans Beef for Mad Cow Disease (MedicineNet.com) Title: New Test Scans Beef for Mad Cow Disease Category: Health News Created: 8/13/2008 9:18:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 8/13/2008 [News Source]

Mad Cow rules hit sperm banks’ patrons (MSNBC) Restrictions on European sperm are meant to protect Americans from human form of disease. [News Source]

Sperm banks run short on Nordic deposits (Seattle Times) When Julie Peterson decided to have a baby on her own two years ago, she picked a tall, blond, blue-eyed Danish engineer as a sperm donor... [News Source]

U.S. Mad Cow Rules Restrict Fertility Clinics (Hartford Courant) When Julie Peterson decided to have a baby on her own two years ago, she picked a tall, blond, blue-eyed Danish engineer as a sperm donor to match her own Scandinavian heritage. [News Source]

Nebraska beef industry gets help marketing to Japan (Lincoln Journal Star) GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — Nebraska’s beef industry has teamed with a U.S. trade association to get help marketing its Japan-bound exports. [News Source]