Mysterious pork disease persists in plant workers. The head tables are gone at Quality Pork Producers in Austin, MN, Indiana Packers Corp. in Delphi, IN, and Hormel Foods Corp. in Fremont, NE. But the disease doctors think head table operations caused--Progressive Inflammatory Neuropathy--is not. [News Source]

Doctors cleared of injecting children with ‘mad cow disease’ (Daily Telegraph) Six French doctors and pharmacists have been cleared of indirectly causing the deaths of 117 children by injecting them with growth hormones tainted with the human form of mad cow disease. [News Source]

Common soil mineral degrades the nearly indestructible prion (PhysOrg) (PhysOrg.com) -- In the rogues' gallery of microscopic infectious agents, the prion is the toughest hombre in town. [News Source]

French medics acquitted over mad cow deaths (AFP via Yahoo! News) A French court Wednesday cleared six health officials over the deaths of 117 people who developed the human form of mad cow disease as children after receiving contaminated growth hormones. [News Source]

6 acquitted in French trial over hormone deaths (AP via Yahoo! News) A French court acquitted six doctors and pharmacists Wednesday in the deaths of at least 114 people who contracted a brain-destroying disease after being treated with tainted human growth hormones. [News Source]

French medics acquitted over mad cow deaths (AFP via Yahoo! News) A French court Wednesday cleared six health officials over the deaths of 117 people who developed the human form of mad cow disease as children after receiving contaminated growth hormones. [News Source]

French court clears pharmacists, doctors in tainted hormone deaths (CBC) A court in France has found six health officials not guilty in the deaths of more than 100 young people who were infected with a brain wasting disease after they were injected with growth hormones in the 1980s. [News Source]

French Court Clears Six in Mad-Cow Disease Deaths, AFP Says (Bloomberg) Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) -- A Paris court found six people not guilty in the deaths of 117 people who had been infected with a human form of mad-cow disease after receiving growth hormone treatments, Agence France-Presse said today, citing the ruling. [News Source]

French Court Clears Six in Mad-Cow Disease Deaths, AFP Says (Bloomberg) Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) -- A Paris court found six people not guilty in the deaths of 117 people who had been infected with a human form of mad-cow disease after receiving growth hormone treatments, Agence France-Presse said today, citing the ruling. [News Source]

Court clears medics over CJD deaths (Channel 4) Six people have been cleared over the deaths of at least 114 people in France who contracted CJD after being treated with tainted human growth hormones. [News Source]