Diverse Symptoms Of Prion Disease In Humans Replicated In Mouse Model (Medical News Today) A comprehensive mouse model of inherited prion disease exhibits cognitive, motor, and neurophysiological deficits that bear a striking resemblance to the symptoms experienced by patients with the human version of "mad cow disease," Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). [News Source]

Is An Anchor Responsible For Mad Cow Disease (BSE) Infections? (Science Daily) Chemists are providing prion researchers with a new tool to elucidate the role played by specific anchor molecules. These complicated anchor compounds are suspected of promoting infections with BSE or Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease. [News Source]

Farm ministry’s woes. We have to wonder about the priorities of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and ask this basic question: Who do its officials think they work for? [News Source]

Mouse Model Of Prion Disease Mimics Diverse Symptoms Of Human Disorder (Science Daily) A comprehensive mouse model of inherited prion disease exhibits cognitive, motor and neurophysiological deficits that bear a striking resemblance to the symptoms experienced by patients with the human version of "mad cow disease," Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The research, published in the journal Neuron, provides exciting insight into the mechanism of disease and may lead to the development of ... [News Source]

New mad-cow rule poses health dangers of its own (Kane County Chronicle) LITITZ, Pa. – A federal regulation aimed at preventing mad cow disease from getting into the food supply could create health risks of its own: many thousands of cattle carcasses rotting on farms, spreading germs, attracting vermin and polluting the water. [News Source]

Ministry to punish officials for bad rice. Agriculture officials will be punished over the tainted rice scandal after an expert committee concluded Tuesday that the farm ministry put priority on sales instead of food safety. [News Source]

US beef back on shelves of SKorean supermarkets. South Korea's supermarket chains resumed selling U.S. beef Thursday, nearly five months after the government lifted an import ban imposed over fears of mad cow disease. [News Source]

US beef back on shelves of SKorean supermarkets (AP via Yahoo! News) South Korea's supermarket chains resumed selling U.S. beef Thursday, nearly five months after the government lifted an import ban imposed over fears of mad cow disease. [News Source]

Korea gets beefed up (News 24 South Africa) South Korea's supermarket chains have resumed selling US beef, nearly five months after the government lifted an import ban imposed over fears of mad cow disease. [News Source]

US meat returns to supermarket shelves in South Korea. (Calcutta News) Stores in South Korea resumed selling US beef on Thursday, nearly five months after the government lifted an import ban imposed over fears of mad cow disease. [News Source]