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December

• BSE updates: 22 Dec 2000: Correction , ProMED-mail, 22 December 2000 -- Neither BSE nor scrapie was found in Argentina.
• W-H-O / Mad Cow, Voice of America, 22 December 2000 -- The World Health Organization warns there is a risk that "mad cow disease" and its human variant, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, could spread beyond the borders of the European Union.
• Food safety, animal-based feed ban - Switzerland , ProMED-mail, 22 December 2000 -- Switzerland will ban meat-based animal feed beginning 1 Jan 2001 in a bid to rid the country of mad cow disease, or BSE, according to Swiss Radio International.
• BSE updates: 22 Dec 2000 , ProMED-mail, 22 December 2000 -- Officials confirmed the third and fourth cases of mad cow disease in German-born animals on Wednesday, both found in cows in the southern state of Bavaria.
• CJD, ProMED-mail, 19 December 2000 -- On Tue 19 Dec 2000, the Health Department of South Africa denied that the death of a comparatively young South African woman this year was due to new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
• BSE updates: 19 Dec 2000 , ProMED-mail, 19 December 2000 -- Updates on the spread of BSE in Europe.
• BSE updates: 16 Dec 2000 , ProMED-mail, 18 December 2000 -- News from Tokyo, Dubai, Moscow and London
• Mad Cow Disease Plan, Voice of America, 18 December 2000 -- European officials are struggling to stop the spread of Mad Cow Disease. Earlier this month, agriculture ministers of European Union nations approved measures to limit the spread of the disease. They hope the measures will help to re-build public trust in European cattle and beef products.
• Australia/Mad cow, Voice of America, 17 December 2000 -- Australia has banned blood donations from thousands of residents who lived in Britain during the mad cow disease epidemic.
• CJD, ProMED-mail, 15 December 2000 -- Inquiry Into Possible Creutzfeldt-jakob Disease Death Link
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy In Germany - Additional information, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 13 - No. 49, 15 December 2000 -- Between 1994 and 1997, a total of six cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) were diagnosed in Germany.
• Chronic wasting dis., elk - Canada, ProMED-mail, 13 December 2000 -- Federal officials have begun whole-herd exterminations as chronic wasting disease continues to spread among Saskatchewan elk farms.
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy In Spain, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 13 - No. 48, 08 December 2000 -- Translation of the summary of two faxes received on 7 December 2000 from Dr Quintiliano Pérez Bonilla, Director General of Animal Production, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Madrid
• Romania Bans Beef Imports, RFE/RL Newsline Vol. 4, No. 236, Part II, 7 December 2000 -- The Agriculture Ministry on 6 December announced it is banning imports of beef and beef products from EU and other countries where BSE (mad cow disease) has been registered.
• Yearender: Europe / Mad Cow, Voice of America, 05 December 2000 -- Europe has been gripped by a food scare stemming from the spread of the so-called mad cow disease, or B-S-E, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.
• EU / Mad Cow, Voice of America, 04 December 2000 -- European Union farm ministers have approved sweeping new measures to curb the spread of mad cow disease and restore consumer confidence in beef.
• E-U / Eastern Europe / Mad Cow, Voice of America, 01 December 2000 -- The European Union's commissioner for agriculture, Franz Fischler, has urged Eastern European countries not to undermine bilateral relations by banning E-U beef following new outbreaks of "mad cow" disease in Western Europe.

  November

• Europe - Mad Cow, Voice of America, 28 November 2000 -- Europe is gripped by fears of contaminated beef products as more cases of Bovine-Spongiform-Encephalopathy or B-S-E are detected.
• France / Spain / Mad Cow, Voice of America, 24 November 2000 -- Spain has confirmed its first case of mad cow disease, and says there may be a second one.
• France Mad Cow, Voice of America, 07 November 2000 -- French President Jacques Chirac on Tuesday urged an immediately suspension in the use of meat and bone meal in all animal feed as a precaution against the spread of mad cow disease.

  October

• France / Mad Cow, Voice of America, 25 October 2000 -- There are new fears in France that mad cow disease is spreading. This week, three supermarket chains announced that they were recalling beef products that came from a herd where an animal had been infected with the disease.
• Britain - Mad Cow Disease, Voice of America, 26 October 2000 -- A report about the British government's response to the outbreak of the Mad Cow Disease is strongly critical of the former Conservative government.

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