Waste mountain grows. Urbanisation, industrialisation, development, population growth and enhanced living standards are causing a tremendous increase in the generation of municipal waste in Bahrain, according to an expert. [News Source]

Italian Researcher Tells Audience at K-State That Work in Animal Models Suggests a Variant of Mad Cow Disease May Be … (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance) The classical form of mad cow disease and a variant manifest themselves differently, but research suggests that the variant may also be transmissible to humans, according a researcher speaking at Kansas State University. [News Source]

Mad-cow conundrum (Denver Post) 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]

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]