Rare Disease Leads to Charles City Death (KIMT Mason City) CHARLES CITY, Iowa - We're learning more about a rare disease that claimed the life of a North Iowa man earlier this week. On Wednesday, Thomas Squire of Charles City died of a brain disorder called Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or CJD for short. [News Source]

Rare brain disease claims Charles City man’s life (The Globe Gazette) CHARLES CITY — The widow of Thomas Squier, a Charles City man who died Wednesday, said he died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), a rare brain disorder. [News Source]

Widow: Charles City man didn’t die of ‘mad cow disease.’ The widow of a man who died of a rare brain disease wants Iowans to know there is no "mad cow disease" outbreak in the state. [News Source]

Rare brain disease claims Charles City man’s life (The Globe Gazette) CHARLES CITY — The widow of Thomas Squier, a Charles City man who died Wednesday, said he died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), a rare brain disorder. [News Source]

Zimbabwe: MDC - Who Really Stands in the Way of the Inclusive Govt? (AllAfrica.com) Harare — The dogs of war are barking furious, less from a determination to bite, more from frustration that the script has failed -- yet again. The link between facile Western journalism and war jingo, indeed the link between crass Eurocentric journalism and white wars abroad, seems never hidden. [News Source]

Illegal dumping may result from new mad cow rule (Mid-Iowa News) Rachel Schoneman, a lab technician with GENESEEK in Lincoln, Neb., holds a card of DNA material to be sequenced in the company’s DNA sequencing lab. GENESEEK was selected to sequence the DNA material in the most recent U.S. mad cow disease incident. [News Source]

Mad cow rule may put farmers in dumps (Southwest Iowa News) LINCOLN -- Nebraska's state veterinarian is among those worried that dead cattle could be left to rot in windbreaks or ditches because of a federal regulation intended to prevent mad cow disease. [News Source]