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• France / Mad Cow, Voice of America, 17 May 2001 -- A French Senate commission is accusing the French government of dragging its feet in the fight against the spread of (bovine spongiform encephalopathy [B-S-E], or) mad cow disease.

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• Congress Madcow, Voice of America, 04 April 2001 -- A food safety expert says she believes mad cow disease could enter the U-S food supply system.

  March

• Britain Mad Cow , Voice of America, 21 March 2001 -- In Britain, a long-awaited report into the first cluster of human victims of mad-cow disease concludes that improper slaughtering and butchering practices were responsible for the transmission.
• Origins/MadCow, Voice of America, 09 March 2001 -- While European health officials wrestle with an expanding outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease among the region's livestock herds, they continue efforts to control another, slower-moving, but more deadly livestock epidemic of Mad Cow Disease, or B-S-E.

  February

• E-U - Mad Cow, Voice of America, 16 February 2001 -- The European Commission has sent a cautious signal to France over Paris' plans to ask it for more money to help French farmers through the mad-cow crisis that is sweeping Europe.
• E-U Mad Sheep Disease, Voice of America, 14 February 2001 -- Scientists advising the European Union have drawn up a pre-emptive battle plan in case a form of mad cow disease should turn up in sheep.
• E-U/Mad Cow, Voice of America, 13 February 2001 -- The European Union's top farm official has announced today/Tuesday emergency plans for changes in the E-U's beef market, to deal with the crisis caused by mad cow disease.
• EU/Germany/Mad Cow, Voice of America, 09 February 2001 -- The European Union has told Germany to tighten its controls over beef exports after spinal cord tissues were found in shipments of German beef in Britain and Ireland.
• 'Mad Cow' Concerns Prevent Some Troop Blood Donations , American Forces Press Service, 01 February 2001 -- It has been more than a year since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned blood donations from any persons, including service members, who had a total of more than six months of residence in the United Kingdom between 1980 and 1996.

  January

• Cow Illness In Europe Promps U-S Fears, Voice of America, 31 January 2001 -- For weeks, European cattle farmers have been battling a new outbreak of so-called "Mad Cow" disease, which decimated British herds years ago.
• E-U / Mad Cow, Voice of America, 31 January 2001 -- The European Union (E-U) says it has an extra 900 million dollars to devote to the fight against mad cow disease but that, if things get worse, there will be no more funds available.
• UN FAO Press Release on Mad Cow Threat, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 26 January 2001 -- The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is warning countries around the world of the risk of mad cow disease appearing in the food chain and entering the human population. In a January 26 press release, the FAO recommends adoption of surveillance and monitoring systems to detect the disease in cattle herds, meat industries, and animal feed operations.
• E-U Mad Cow, Voice of America, 25 January 2001 -- The European Commission says it has run out of money to fight the mad-cow disease that is sweeping the continent.
• BSE: safety of cattle semen , ProMED-mail, 21 January 2001 -- All world authorities are satisfied that bovine semen is safe
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy In Denmark, Italy, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 3, 19 January 2001 -- Report of two more cases of the disease in Europe
• Chronic wasting disease, elk: informing hunters , ProMED-mail, 18 January 2001 -- Clearly we are in an era when surveillance for infectious diseases in wildlife is an emerging field in itself. While it is not always clear what the implications of epidemic infectious diseases in wildlife are for human populations, it is clear that humans are often "unlucky" victims of parasites in search of new niches.
• Mad cow disease fears prompt ban on some blood donations, Stars and Stripes, 18 January 2001 -- Officials at the American Red Cross will soon turn away blood donors who have lived in Western Europe for more than six months from 1980 to now, and are urging other agencies to follow suit.
• Chronic wasting disease, wild deer - USA (Nebraska) , ProMED-mail, 17 January 2001 -- The presence of chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been confirmed for the first time in the wild in Nebraska.
• BSE, new cases - Austria, Italy (02) , ProMED-mail, 17 January 2001 -- Reports of Mad Cow Disease in Austria and Italy
• BSE, new cases - Austria, Italy , ProMED-mail, 15 January 2001 -- Reports of new cases in Austria and Italy.
• CJD (new var.) - UK: some questions (04) , ProMED-mail, 13 January 2001 -- A Short Comment on the Properties of Prions
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy In Spain, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 2, 12 January 2001 -- Translation of the summary of two faxes received on 9 and 11 January 2001 from Dr Quintiliano Pérez Bonilla, Director General of Animal Production, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Madrid
• CJD (new var.) - UK: some questions (03) , ProMED-mail, 11 January 2001 -- Phenotypic Susceptibility May be the Key
• CJD (new var.) - UK: some questions (02) , ProMED-mail, 10 January 2001 -- In common with Nick Honhold, the author of the initial posting, I have no particular expertise in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), but as a blood banker I have a very real interest. I, too, found an epidemiological approach taking a rolling average to smooth annual fluctuations in the figures [recently posted in CJD (NEW VAR.) - UK: UPDATE 3 JAN 2001] of interest.
• Germany / Mad Cow, Voice of America, 10 January 2001 -- German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder moved swiftly to reshuffle his cabinet today/Wednesday after the resignation of two ministers over the mishandling of the nation's mad cow disease crisis.
• CJD (new var.) - UK: some questions , ProMED-mail, 09 January 2001 -- I accept that I have no particular expertise in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), or even bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), apart from having seen several cases. But as an epidemiologist looking at the figures recently posted for CJD [see: CJD (new var.) - UK: update June 2000 20000707.1126], I have some questions that may be of interest.
• Australia/Mad Cow, Voice of America, 08 January 2001 -- Australia has banned all beef imports from Europe amid growing fears of mad cow disease and is setting up a committee to investigate risks posed to consumers.
• CJD (new var.) - UK: tonsillectomy instruments , ProMED-mail, 05 January 2001 -- The National Heath Service (NHS) is to spend millions of pounds to prevent any risk of people contracting the human form of BSE [variant CJD] during surgery
• CJD (new var.) - Ireland: polio vaccine withdrawn , ProMED-mail, 05 January 2001 -- The Republic of Ireland's Department of Health and Children has been informed that one blood donor from the United Kingdom, plasma from whose donation was used in Britain to make a batch of the product human serum albumin, has recently been diagnosed with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
• CJD (new var.) - UK: update 3 Jan 2001 , ProMED-mail, 04 January 2001 -- The Department of Health today issued the latest information about the numbers of known cases of [classical and variant] Creutzfeldt Jakob disease
• BSE updates: 31 Dec 2000 , ProMED-mail, 01 January 2001 -- Updates from France, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Finland and Holland.

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