Cattle Outlook: Good News For Consumer Beef Demand, Slaughter Down (CattleNetwork.com) In the past 10 years omitting the year 2003 because of the outbreak of mad cow disease in Canada, which disrupted seasonal cattle prices, the price of Choice fed cattle have topped in March and held strong in April with the annual low in July. Prices from September through February have been fairly flat at or near the average price for the year. [News Source]

Pogue: Swine flu hits home (Daily News Journal) Swine flu? Monkey flu? Mad cow disease? [News Source]

Flu pandemic: History says don’t panic (Crikey) Whether it's anthrax, mad cow disease, foot-and-mouth disease, bird flu or, going back to the 1990s, ebola, the news of an outbreak causes fear unjustified by the reality. [News Source]

Pig flu might not fly if we go organic. Clearly keeping animals packed together in unnatural conditions is conducive to the breeding and mutation of viruses. Most food scares of recent years — dioxin contamination of Irish pork, salmonella in chicken — come down to intensive farming practices done on the cheap. [News Source]

Humans are responsible for swine flu (PhysOrg) Swine flu. Bird flu. Mad cow disease. SARS. These diseases have all spread from animals to humans in one form or another. But animals aren't to blame for outbreaks of animal-borne diseases -- humans are. [News Source]

Nigeria: A Flu And Its Many Jitters (AllAfrica.com) It was only just recently that Nigerians woke up to the alert of the mad cow disease. The fear of the disease forced many red meat lovers to abandon the delicacies from meat. [News Source]