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News From The American Chemical Society Feb. 27, 2008

Categorie : CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease
A nano-sensor for better detection of Mad Cow Disease agentIn an advance in food safety, researchers in New York are reporting development of a nano-sized sensor that detects record low levels of the deadly prion proteins that cause Mad Cow Disease and other so-called prion diseases. ...

read more A nano-sensor for better detection of Mad Cow Disease agentIn an advance in food safety, researchers in New York are reporting development of a nano-sized sensor that detects record low levels of the deadly prion proteins that cause Mad Cow Disease and other so-called prion diseases. read more Wed Mar 2008 Wed Mar 2008

Food Safety Attorney, Calls For CDC Long-Term Study Of Nation's School Children And Congressional Hearings On Safety Of United States Beef Supply

Categorie : CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease
The largest recall of beef in U.S. history - over 143 million pounds - and the solid evidence that USDA has failed to enforce its own ban against downer cattle being used in the nation's school lunch program, demand immediate action by Congress says food safety attorney William D. Marler. ...

read more The largest recall of beef in U.S. history - over 143 million pounds - and the solid evidence that USDA has failed to enforce its own ban against downer cattle being used in the nation's school lunch program, demand immediate action by Congress says food safety attorney William D. Marler. read more Fri Feb 2008 Fri Feb 2008

French Medics Sued Over CJD Deaths

Categorie : CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease
Seven former medical officials are on trial in France following a 17 year investigation into over 100 deaths from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) of young patients treated with contaminated growth hormones.The defendants, retired doctors and pharmacists in their 70s and 80s, are accused of manslaugh ...

read more Seven former medical officials are on trial in France following a 17 year investigation into over 100 deaths from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) of young patients treated with contaminated growth hormones.The defendants, retired doctors and pharmacists in their 70s and 80s, are accused of manslaugh read more Tue Feb 2008 Tue Feb 2008

New vCJD Case Raises Fear Of Mad Cow Disease Resurge In The UK

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Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) has killed a 39 year old woman in the UK and triggered renewed fears that a new surge of mad cow disease is on the way. However, experts are saying there is no need to panic and there is no evidence of a new wave of BSE or mad cow disease. ...

read more Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) has killed a 39 year old woman in the UK and triggered renewed fears that a new surge of mad cow disease is on the way. However, experts are saying there is no need to panic and there is no evidence of a new wave of BSE or mad cow disease. read more Tue Jan 2008 Tue Jan 2008

11th Case Of Mad Cow Disease Confirmed In Canada

Categorie : CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease
An animal which was born before new feed regulations came into force has been confirmed to be infected with mad-cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE), says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). The agency says the 11-year-old cow from Alberta had not entered the human food or ...

read more An animal which was born before new feed regulations came into force has been confirmed to be infected with mad-cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE), says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). The agency says the 11-year-old cow from Alberta had not entered the human food or read more Mon Dec 2007 Mon Dec 2007

Levels Of Prion Protein In Brain May Not Be Reliable Marker For Disease

Categorie : CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease
Rapid diagnostic testing used to check for the presence of prion diseases such as "mad cow disease" might fail to identify some highly infectious samples, researchers have found. Currently, scanning beef or other meat products for possible prion infection involves sampling brain tissue from the anim ...

read more Rapid diagnostic testing used to check for the presence of prion diseases such as read more Sun Dec 2007 Sun Dec 2007

National CJD Surveillance Unit Publishes 15th Annual Report For 2006, UK

Categorie : CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease
The Fifteenth Annual Report of the National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit was published recently. The report looks back over the period from May 1990 (when the Unit was set up) to 31 December 2006. The report outlines the Unit's work in the clinical surveillance of variant (vCJ ...

read more The Fifteenth Annual Report of the National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit was published recently. The report looks back over the period from May 1990 (when the Unit was set up) to 31 December 2006. The report outlines the Unit's work in the clinical surveillance of variant (vCJ read more Sun Dec 2007 Sun Dec 2007

Prion Fingerprints Detected With Glowing Molecule

Categorie : CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease
An effective and sensitive new method for detecting and characterizing prions, the infectious compounds behind diseases like mad cow disease, is now being launched by researchers at Linkoping University in Sweden, among other institutions. Mad cow disease (BSE), which has caused the death of more t ...

read more An effective and sensitive new method for detecting and characterizing prions, the infectious compounds behind diseases like mad cow disease, is now being launched by researchers at Linkoping University in Sweden, among other institutions. Mad cow disease (BSE), which has caused the death of more t read more Sun Dec 2007 Sun Dec 2007

A Potential Anti-Prion Drug With "Unprecedented" Potency

Categorie : CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease
The urgent search for a medication to treat prion diseases has led scientists in Germany to synthesize a new group of compounds, including one that is 15 times more potent than an approved drug now being tested in clinical trials. Their report is scheduled for the Nov. 2 issue of the biweekly ACS Jo ...

read more The urgent search for a medication to treat prion diseases has led scientists in Germany to synthesize a new group of compounds, including one that is 15 times more potent than an approved drug now being tested in clinical trials. Their report is scheduled for the Nov. 2 issue of the biweekly ACS Jo read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

Canada Confirms Eighth Case Of Mad-Cow Disease

Categorie : CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease
Canadian authorities have confirmed that a mature beef cow from Alberta had mad-cow disease (BSE). According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), no part of the animal has entered the human or animal food chains. The cow is estimated to be between 8 and 10 years old, making it highly ...

read more Canadian authorities have confirmed that a mature beef cow from Alberta had mad-cow disease (BSE). According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), no part of the animal has entered the human or animal food chains. The cow is estimated to be between 8 and 10 years old, making it highly read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

$1.5 Million 'New Innovator' Grant From NIH For Fruit-Fly Studies Of Prion Proteins

Categorie : CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease
The National Institutes of Health has selected University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) Assistant Professor of Neurology Pedro Fernandez-Funez to receive a five-year, $1.5 million NIH Director's New Innovator Award.NIH Director Dr. Elias Zerhouni officially announced the 29 rec ...

read more The National Institutes of Health has selected University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) Assistant Professor of Neurology Pedro Fernandez-Funez to receive a five-year, $1.5 million NIH Director's New Innovator Award.NIH Director Dr. Elias Zerhouni officially announced the 29 rec read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

Prions And Retroviruses - An Unholy Alliance? - Expression Of Endogenous Retroviruses Is Changed After Prion Infection

Categorie : CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease
In work originating from the Bavarian Research Cooperation Prions (FORPRION), which ended in 2007, a team led by the scientist Prof. Dr. Christine Leib-Mösch has been able to show that prion proteins may activate endogenous retroviruses in infected brain cells. [click link for full ar ...

read more In work originating from the Bavarian Research Cooperation Prions (FORPRION), which ended in 2007, a team led by the scientist Prof. Dr. Christine Leib-Mösch has been able to show that prion proteins may activate endogenous retroviruses in infected brain cells. [click link for full ar read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

Discovery Of New Prion Protein May Offer Insight Into Mad Cow Disease

Categorie : CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease
Scientists have discovered a new protein that may offer fresh insights into brain function in mad cow disease. "Our team has defined a second prion protein called 'Shadoo', that exists in addition to the well-known prion protein called 'PrP' " said Professor David Westaway, director of the Centre fo ...

read more Scientists have discovered a new protein that may offer fresh insights into brain function in mad cow disease. read more Fri Oct 2007 Fri Oct 2007

Breakthrough In Prion Amplification Brings Hope Of Blood Test For Variant CJD

Categorie : CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease
Researchers have shown that a recently developed laboratory method to amplify prions (Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification) can be applied to variant CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease). The work was carried out by scientists at the National CJD Surveillance Unit at the University of Edinburgh, the S ...

read more Researchers have shown that a recently developed laboratory method to amplify prions (Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification) can be applied to variant CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease). The work was carried out by scientists at the National CJD Surveillance Unit at the University of Edinburgh, the S read more Fri Oct 2007 Fri Oct 2007

Prion Infectivity Spread Through Lymph Nodes Into Nervous System

Categorie : CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease
Lymph nodes can be crucial for spreading low doses of infective prion agents -- the pathogens responsible for conditions such as scrapie and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease -- into the nervous system, according to new research published in the online open access journal BMC Veterinary Research. [click lin ...

read more Lymph nodes can be crucial for spreading low doses of infective prion agents -- the pathogens responsible for conditions such as scrapie and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease -- into the nervous system, according to new research published in the online open access journal BMC Veterinary Research. [click lin read more Fri Oct 2007 Fri Oct 2007

$1.5 Million 'New Innovator' Grant From NIH For Fruit-Fly Studies Of Prion Proteins

Categorie : CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease
The National Institutes of Health has selected University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) Assistant Professor of Neurology Pedro Fernandez-Funez to receive a five-year, $1.5 million NIH Director's New Innovator Award.NIH Director Dr. Elias Zerhouni officially announced the 29 recipients ...

read more The National Institutes of Health has selected University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) Assistant Professor of Neurology Pedro Fernandez-Funez to receive a five-year, $1.5 million NIH Director's New Innovator Award.NIH Director Dr. Elias Zerhouni officially announced the 29 recipients read more Fri Oct 2007 Fri Oct 2007

Prions And Retroviruses - An Unholy Alliance? - Expression Of Endogenous Retroviruses Is Changed After Prion Infection

Categorie : CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease
In work originating from the Bavarian Research Cooperation Prions (FORPRION), which ended in 2007, a team led by the scientist Prof. Dr. Christine Leib-Mösch has been able to show that prion proteins may activate endogenous retroviruses in infected brain cells. [click link for full article] ...

read more In work originating from the Bavarian Research Cooperation Prions (FORPRION), which ended in 2007, a team led by the scientist Prof. Dr. Christine Leib-Mösch has been able to show that prion proteins may activate endogenous retroviruses in infected brain cells. [click link for full article] read more Fri Oct 2007 Fri Oct 2007

Monthly Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease Statistics, UK

Categorie : CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease
The Department of Health is today issuing the latest information about the numbers of known cases of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. This includes cases of variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (vCJD) - the form of the disease thought to be linked to BSE. [click link for full article] ...

read more The Department of Health is today issuing the latest information about the numbers of known cases of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. This includes cases of variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (vCJD) - the form of the disease thought to be linked to BSE. [click link for full article] read more Wed Jun 2007 Wed Jun 2007

BSE Case Confirmed In British Columbia, Canada

Categorie : CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed the diagnosis of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a mature dairy cow from British Columbia. The animal's carcass is under CFIA control, and no part of it entered the human food or animal feed systems. [click link for full article] ...

read more The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed the diagnosis of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a mature dairy cow from British Columbia. The animal's carcass is under CFIA control, and no part of it entered the human food or animal feed systems. [click link for full article] read more Wed May 2007 Wed May 2007

Toward Safer Disposal Of Animals Infected With Mad Cow And Other Prion Diseases

Categorie : CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease
Burying prion-infected carcasses of cattle, deer and other animals in lime may actually enhance the spread of those infectious proteins through soil, a new study suggests. Placing quicklime on carcasses once was thought to be the best way to foster quick decay of bodies and to prevent the spread of ...

read more Burying prion-infected carcasses of cattle, deer and other animals in lime may actually enhance the spread of those infectious proteins through soil, a new study suggests. Placing quicklime on carcasses once was thought to be the best way to foster quick decay of bodies and to prevent the spread of read more Sat Mar 2007 Sat Mar 2007

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