Health dept: ‘Mad cow’ unlikely in Roane patient (WBIR-TV Knoxville) The Tennessee Department of Health is investigating a case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, and saying in the meantime it is extremely unlikely that it is a human case of the disease known as 'mad cow.' [News Source]

Dairies to pay more to prevent Mad Cow disease (The Hanford Sentinel) snidever@hanfordsentinel.com [News Source]

U.S. urged to adopt mandatory livestock traceback. The U.S. government should require livestock producers to enroll in a traceback system, a primary U.S. defense against mad cow disease, because voluntary signups are not working, two key congressmen said on Wednesday. [News Source]

Lost subsidy a concern. It's only a matter of time before dead stock starts piling up around Woodstock and elsewhere in this part of the province, MPP Ernie Hardeman warns. [News Source]

Utility Of Circulating DNA As Novel Diagnostics For Human Cancer, Mad Cow Disease And Other Conditions (Medical News Today) Chronix Biomedical - developing and applying proprietary techniques to detect and analyze circulating nucleic acid sequences for the diagnosis and management of disease - reported that three recent studies published in peer-reviewed journals have further confirmed the potential diagnostic and progno [News Source]

HemoBioTech Announces Dramatic Clearance Of Prions With The ORTH Technology (Medical News Today) HemoBioTech (OTCBB:HMBT) announced that their orthogonal (ORTH) technology showed to be extremely effective in elimination of prion proteins that cause mad cow disease (BSE) and a similar disease in humans (vCJD/CJD). The ORTH technology removed prion proteins at a rate of 10 -10 from biological fluids used to make specific pharmaceutical products. [News Source]