- Date: Tuesday, 26 December
- From: Patricia Doyle, PhD <dr_p_doyle@hotmail.com
- Source: UPI [edited]
-
- Just a week before European countries impose new tests
for mad cow disease, France reported yet another case of the bovine ailment
that has sparked panic across the continent. The latest sighting was reported
in Aquitaine, a region in France that had previously been untouched by
the scare.
-
- France has reported more than 200 cases since January
-- more than triple the previous year's cases. Those figures pale when
compared to Britain's 180 000 cases. Last Friday, French prosecutors began
investigations into whether to pursue a case charging France, Britain and
the EU for spreading the brain-wasting human variant, known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease. _____
-
- Date: 25 Dec 2000
- From: ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org
- Source: CNN [edited]
- <http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/meast/12/25/emirates.pakistan.reut/index.html
-
- The United Arab Emirates imposed a 3-month ban on imports
of cows and water buffaloes from Pakistan on Monday to prevent the spread
of diseases, the official WAM news agency reported.
-
- It quoted a UAE Agricultural Ministry statement as saying
the decision was a "precautionary measure to safeguard against diseases."
The agency did not give the value of purchases of Pakistani cattle by
the UAE, which imports a large portion of its own food and is a major regional
re-export hub. The UAE and the other Gulf Arab oil states have banned
livestock and beef imports from a number of European and African countries
in the past few months because of concerns over mad cow disease and other
illnesses. _____
-
- Date: 24 December 2000
- From: ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org
- Source: CNN Online [edited]
- <http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/12/24/germany.madcow/index.html
-
- Another case of suspected mad cow disease has been found
in Germany -- raising the total to 4 suspected cases on top of 5 confirmed
incidents of the brain-wasting illness. The Agriculture Ministry in the
central state of Lower Saxony said a cow slaughtered near the town of Osnabrueck
on Saturday was believed to be infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy
(BSE).
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- The cow was born in 1996. It was slaughtered on Saturday
because it appeared to be ill. Police sealed off the farm. The cow had
given birth on Wednesday but the calf did not appear to be ill. Germany
had insisted until last month that it was immune to BSE. The German health
ministry has advised Germans against consuming meat products that might
contain beef.
-
- And the latest discovery comes after the Netherlands
and Belgium joined Austria by issuing warnings over German beef. The Dutch
Health Ministry has advised the public not to eat German meat for the time
being and local media in Belgium has reported that the government ordered
the withdrawal of all German beef from shops.
-
- Meanwhile, Germany has rejected a charge that it hampered
efforts to address the spread of the disease with confusing policies and
poor excuses. European Union Farm Commissioner Franz Fischler said in an
interview with Die Welt newspaper that Germany had made the EU's work "not
any easier by trying, as usual, to assign the blame elsewhere." Martin
Wille, Germany's deputy farm minister, dismissed Fischler's charges and
said government officials had worked quickly and efficiently to cooperate
with the EU. He blamed the EU Commission for delaying follow-up information
Germany requested.
-
- The United Nations health agency said it would convene
a major meeting of experts and officials from all regions on the neuro-degenerative
diseases striking cattle and humans. Since 1986, 180 000 BSE cases have
been confirmed in British cattle, with 1300 to 1400 cases elsewhere in
Europe -- all but several dozen cases in 4 countries (France, Ireland,
Portugal and Switzerland), according to WHO. In all, 87 cases of vCJD
have been reported in Britain, 3 in France and one in Ireland, according
to the agency. _____
-
- Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000
- From: M. Cosgriff <mcosgriff@hotmail.com
- Source: Times of India [edited]
- <http://www.timesofindia.com/today/28hlth13.htm
-
- Sheep should be tested for mad cow disease
-
- German Agriculture Minister Karl-Heinz Funke said on
Wednesday the country should introduce mass testing for Bovine Spongiform
Encephalopathy (BSE) in sheep.
-
- "If scientists recommend doing that, I support it,"
Funke told German public television network ZDF in an interview, adding
that any new testing program should be introduced at the European Union
level. Funke said that he believed sheep were less at risk of contracting
the disease because most are kept in grazing flocks and do not come in
contact with feed that contains animal remains. _____
-
- Date: 28 Dec 2000
- From: ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org
- Source: M2 Communications Ltd. [edited]
-
- Finnish farms with more than 20 goats or sheep will have
to test the animals for viruses that cause certain diseases that affect
the brain. The compulsory testing programme will step into force from
the start of the new year and is seen as necessary because some virus-caused
diseases have symptoms much like those of BSE (mad cow disease).
-
- Farms with fewer than 20 goats or sheep can choose if
they want to carry out the tests. _____
-
- Date: 29 Dec 2000
- From: ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org
- Source: Chicago Tribune [edited]
- <http://www.chicago.tribune.com/version1/article/0,1575,SAV-0012290190,00.html
-
-
- Germany called for expanding meat testing to include
sheep as a health scare gripped the country Thursday after the discovery
of still more cases of mad cow disease.
-
- The state testing agency in Tuebingen confirmed 2 more
cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, known as mad cow disease--one
in the southern Unterallgaeu region and another in Osnabrueck in Lower
Saxony--to bring Germany's known tally to seven.
-
- Health authorities carrying out routine tests of sausages
on German supermarket shelves found that in some cases, sausages were labeled
incorrectly and did not say that the product contained beef.
-
- Germany is testing cattle for the disease at a nationwide
level, but so far sheep are not included in the program. Agriculture Minister
Karl-Heinz Funke wants to widen testing to include sheep. He called for
a European Union plan to examine theories that sheep could be linked to
mad cow disease. _____
-
- Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 16:01:59 -0500
- From: ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org
- Source: Reuters [edited]
-
- Dutch Discover Eighth Case of Mad Cow Disease
- _____
- AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch government said on Friday
it had discovered its 8th case of mad cow disease at a farm in the eastern
town of Punthorst.
-
- The most recent BSE case in the Netherlands was discovered
on 17 Nov 2000 this year amid a growing mad cow health scare crisis across
Europe.
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