Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz) I have been trying hard to recall a presidential campaign in which there has been so much slime, sleaze and slippery deception confronting the voter. I can't. Even Nixon, by the time he was a presidential candidate, had cleaned up his act. McCain ... [News Source]

Blood test for vCJD ‘unrealistic’. Screening donated blood for vCJD is unrealistic and would scare away donors, government advisors say. [News Source]

Test for human form of mad cow disease sparks fears of a blood donor shortage. A breakthrough blood test for the incurable human form of mad cow disease could be available within 18 months. [News Source]

donga.com[English donga] (donga.com) In 1999, college senior Park Ki-tae began correspondence with foreign friends through the Internet. As he got to know them more, he found a serious problem. Many of his foreign friends did not know where Korea was, and if they knew, they thought Korea was part of China. [News Source]

Moo-ving across the border (Calgary Sun) OTTAWA — Mexico has lifted a temporary ban and reopened its border to imports of Alberta breeding cattle born after January 1999. Mexican officials imposed the ban last August after the discovery of BSE in a six-year-old beef cow from the province. [News Source]

Hot On The Heels Of The Mad Cow Pathogen - First Synthetic Anchored Prion (Medical News Today) In the mid-90s, mad cow disease was on everyone's lips and the front page of every newspaper. What made the epizootic outbreak so alarming was the as-sumption that a mutation of the fatal Creutzfeld Jakob Disease (vCJD) could be triggered in humans through the consumption of BSE-infected beef. In both species, the diseases result in brain degeneration. [News Source]

Worries over test for mad cow disease (News-Medical-Net) A new test to screen blood for the incurable human form of mad cow disease could be available within 18 months, but it has raised concerns. [News Source]

Both sides of the 60-0 football rout (The Barre Montpelier Times Argus) Whew! What was in those cheeseburgers? ... [News Source]

vCJD test may impact blood donation (Channel 4) A blood test for the human form of mad cow disease could be available within 18 months but experts fear it may put people off giving blood, according to reports. [News Source]