BSE and CJD

Brain disease 'passed by transfusion' THE deadly brain disease vCJD could be transmitted by blood transfusion, according to a new study by city scientists.

Scots doctors pioneer trial to remove 'mad cow' risk from donated blood THE world's first trial to make blood transfusions free of the human form of 'mad cow disease' has been launched by doctors in Scotland.

Mad cow disease 'a ticking timebomb' FEARS of a new wave of deaths caused by the human form of mad cow disease have been triggered by a type of variant CJD never seen before.

What are you scared of? REMEMBER all those food scares which had our politicians in a spin in the late 1980s and 90s? First there was Edwina Currie’s great panic over salmonella in eggs, followed by the “listeria hysteria” which almost closed down one well-known cheesemaker in Scotland.

The dormant but ongoing threat of vCJD

Britain may 'never be rid of vCJD threat' without screening

Fears for blood supplies as CJD test set to cut flow of potential donors

Scientists develop new way of testing for vCJD

More accurate mad cow test is developed

Call for EU to update beef-on-bone rules

Why the fallen stock scheme is legislative madness

Mad cow disease advance

Carelessness is putting beef exports at risk, farmers told

Prion filter may help reduce the risk of humans contracting 'mad cow disease'

CJD fears over use of second-hand implants for bones

Meat recalled after breach of BSE rules

BSE scare has forced meat industry to look at how it polices itself

Briton critical in hospital with suspected mad cow disease

Surgical patients to be screened for CJD risk

Retailers must state beef source

Call for action on surgical instruments over CJD

Drug 'does not halt' mad cow disease

Minister urges stronger links in Scotland's food supply chain FORDYCE MAXWELL

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