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Mad Cow Disease (BSE)
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) 
 News and factsheets on this disease (also known as "mad cow" disease) from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). http://www.aphis.usda.gov/newsroom/hot_issues/bse/index.shtml Topics: Agriculture, Animals, Infectious Diseases, Livestock Last updated May 20, 2007 BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, or Mad Cow Disease)
Contains information on control measures and reported cases, as well as news and articles on BSE. Includes links to information on related diseases. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/bse/ Topics: Animals, Infectious Diseases, Livestock Last updated Jun 30, 2005 Official Mad Cow Disease
Over 7,000 articles on mad cow disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), prions, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), scrapie, chronic wasting disease (CWD), transmissible mink encephalopathies (TME), and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE). A project of the Sperling Biomedical Foundation. The science and news indexes are archived back to 1996; there is also a graphics archive with over 100 images. http://www.mad-cow.org/ Topics: Animals, Consumer Research & Advocacy, Diseases & Conditions, Infectious Diseases, Nutrition & Food Safety Last updated Jun 15, 2001 World Health Organization Fact Sheets: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
World Health Organization (WHO) fact sheet on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, or "mad cow disease") which "is a transmissible, neurodegenerative, fatal brain disease of cattle." Provides information about the disease, its cause, its link with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), and WHO recommendations to reduce human exposure to the disease. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs113/en/ Topics: Agriculture, Animals, Infectious Diseases, Livestock Last updated Jan 8, 2004 |
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