Month: April 2012
Health Tip: Stress Fracture of the Foot
EU says no impact on U.S. beef imports from mad cow case
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s executive said on Wednesday it did not intend to impose any particular measures on imports from the United States following the discovery of the country’s first case of mad cow disease or BSE in six years. “The (European) Commission is satisfied that the new BSE case has been confirmed in the framework of the ongoing BSE surveillance system in the United States, which prevented this animal from entering the food chain,” EU Commission health spokesman Frederic Vincent said in a statement, referring to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow …
Factbox: Mad cow cases in U.S. and Canada
(Reuters) – The following are key dates in the spread of mad cow disease in Canada and the United States. The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed on Tuesday the fourth U.S. case of mad cow, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), in a dairy cow in central California. First discovered in Great Britain in 1986, mad cow disease destroys the brain of cattle and a similar fatal disease can affect people who eat meat from infected cattle, according to scientists. More than 150 people and 184,000 cows, mainly in Britain and Europe, have died from the diseases. …
Russia may answer U.S. mad cow outbreak with limits
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia does not rule out temporary restrictions on meat imports from the United States in response to the first reported U.S. case of mad cow disease in six years, Russia’s animal and plant health watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said. “We consider all options. In a case of serious threat, we will also consider the possibility of imposing restrictions. For now, we do not have enough information to make a decision,” Rosselkhoznadzor spokesman Alexei Alekseenko said on Wednesday. U.S. …
Top vet rushes to soothe mad cow fears
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hours after confirming to reporters that the United States had found its fourth-ever case of mad cow disease, John Clifford was ready to answer the world’s questions about the safety of U.S. beef. Clifford, the government’s chief veterinary officer at the agriculture department, had quickly called his counterparts in Mexico and Canada, the first and second-largest buyers of U.S. beef, to tell them about a California cow found to have an “atypical” type of the brain-wasting disease. Having taken up his post in May 2004, just six months after the first U.S. …
Instant View: Mad cow disease found in California
(Reuters) – The U.S. Agriculture Department confirmed on Tuesday that it found a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, the nation’s fourth, in a dairy cow in California. The USDA has begun to notify the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) as well as its trading partners, but the finding should not affect U.S. beef exports, said John Clifford, the USDA’s chief veterinary officer. COMMENTS: US Meat Export Federation spokesman Joe Schuele: Said they were told that U.S. …
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Congo’s "Papa Machete" sculpts life out of death
KINSHASA (Reuters) – It takes a moment to realise that the sculpture, depicting the curve of a pregnant female form, is constructed from tens of thousands of used bullet casings. Freddy Tsimba fashions his works from the objects that mean the most to him – often those found lying around in his home country of Democratic Republic of Congo. Given Congo’s past – brutal colonisation, dictatorship and successive conflicts which killed millions – the 44-year-old artist has found no shortage either of materials or inspiration. …
US moves to contain mad cow fallout
The United States scrambled on Wednesday to contain the fallout from the discovery of mad cow disease in California as the top beef exporter insisted the outbreak posed no threat to consumers.
New case of mad cow disease in California
The first new case of mad cow disease in the U.S. since 2006 has been discovered in a dairy cow in California, but health authorities said the animal never posed a threat to the nation’s food supply.
Discovery of mad cow in US was stroke of luck
A nondescript building in the heart of California’s dairy country has become the focus of intense scrutiny after mad cow disease was discovered in a dead dairy cow.