NC agency wins grant to prevent mad cow disease There's never been a confirmed case of mad cow disease in North Carolina, and state officials have won a $1.25 million grant to help keep it that way. [News Source]

Scripps Research scientists show prions mutate and adapt to host environment ( Scripps Research Institute ) Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have shown that prions, bits of infectious protein that can cause fatal neurodegenerative disease such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy or "mad cow disease," have the ability to adapt to survive in a new host environment. [News Source]

Prions mutate and adapt to host environment Scientists have shown that prions, bits of infectious protein that can cause fatal neurodegenerative disease such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or "mad cow disease," have the ability to adapt to survive in a new host environment. [News Source]

China agrees to resume talks on beef. China has agreed to restart negotiations on access to its beef market, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a statement. Japan and China imposed restrictions on U.S. beef imports in 2003 after mad-cow disease, also called bovine spongiform encephalopathy, was found in three U.S. cattle. [News Source]

No mad cow disease in Taiwan: DOH head TAIPEI, Taiwan - Health minister Yaung Chih-liang reiterated Monday that the government did not try to conceal the case of a Taiwanese man who died in May from what is suspected to have been mad cow disease. [News Source]

Virus-like structure calls into question origin of diseases such as ‘mad cow’ (PhysOrg.com) -- A Yale University researcher has found virus-like genetic material within samples of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and scrapie, a finding that challenges scientific consensus on the nature of these deadly brain-wasting diseases. [News Source]

Health body denies mad-cow cover-up. Former health minister Yeh Ching-chuan (葉金川) became the target of criticism yesterday from opposition lawmakers and in part by his successor for not reporting Taiwan's first possible human case of mad-cow disease. [News Source]

Health body denies mad-cow cover-up TAIPEI, Taiwan --Former health minister Yeh Ching-chuan (葉金川) became the target of criticism yesterday from opposition lawmakers and in part by his successor for not reporting Taiwan's first possible human case of mad-cow disease. [News Source]

Mad-cow disease may have killed Taiwanese man TAIPEI, Taiwan - A Taiwanese man, who spent eight years studying in the United Kingdom before returning home, died in May this year from what appeared to be mad-cow disease, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said yesterday. [News Source]

Mad-cow disease may have killed Taiwanese man. A Taiwanese man, who spent eight years studying in the United Kingdom before returning home, died in May this year from what appeared to be mad-cow disease. Officials have examined 573 "problem cows" in Taiwan this year and found none infected with the disease. [News Source]