Montara teen waits for bone marrow transplant (San Mateo County Times) MONTARA — In September, two weeks after his 13th birthday, Clayton Hagy started to feel strange — and he knew it was not from his maturing teenage hormones. [News Source]

Last Night’s Television - Storyville, BBC4; Who’s Watching You?, BBC2; Coronation Street, ITV1 (Independent) Carleton Gajdusek was a name unfamiliar to me before I watched Bosse Lindquist's engrossing Storyville documentary, The Genius and the Boys. I learnt that Gajdusek was a brilliant Nobel Prize-winning scientist, born in New York in 1923, who discovered the particles that cause mad cow disease. [News Source]

From pitbulls to pigs, animals make more news (Swissinfo) Bird flu, baby polar bears, pit bulls: A study has found that stories featuring animals grab headlines nearly three times as often as they did 30 years ago. [News Source]

Scripps Flordia researchers develop new test for “mad cow” culprit (TechJournal South) JUPITER, FL – Current tests to identify specific strains of infectious prions, which cause a range of transmissible diseases (such as mad cow) in animals and humans, can take anywhere from six months to a year to yield results – a time-lag that may put human populations at risk. [News Source]