Survey shows increase in resistance to drug therapies among bovine...
A survey of records of bovine respiratory disease cases at the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory showed that drug resistance in one of the primary pathogens that cause BRD, Mannheimia...
View ArticleIdentification of new cattle virus will help rule out mad cow disease
A new cow virus that causes neurologic symptoms reminiscent of mad cow disease has been identified and its genome sequenced by a team of researchers including scientists at the University of...
View ArticleWhole genome sequencing provides researchers with a better understanding of...
The use of whole bacterial genome sequencing will allow scientists to inexpensively track how bovine tuberculosis (TB) is transmitted from farm to farm, according to research presented this week at the...
View ArticleBetter understanding of diseases devastating African communities
While high-profile diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis tend to take the lion's share of both publicity and funding, a number of neglected diseases, transmissible between animals and humans...
View ArticleBadgers ultimately responsible for around half of TB in cattle, study estimates
Badgers are ultimately responsible for roughly half of tuberculosis (TB) in cattle in areas with high TB prevalence, according to new estimates based on data from a previous badger culling trial.
View ArticleThe role of uncertainty in infectious disease modelling
Research by scientists at the University of Liverpool has found that greater consideration of the limitations and uncertainties in infectious disease modelling would improve its usefulness and value.
View ArticleGenetic find might lead to cattle that are more resistant to TB
Scientists have identified genetic traits in cattle that might allow farmers to breed livestock with increased resistance to bovine tuberculosis (TB).
View ArticleStudy examines blood test to screen for fatal variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
A blood test accurately screened for infection with the agent responsible for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), a fatal neurological disease.
View ArticleBrazil probes suspected case of mad cow disease
Brazil is probing a suspected case of "atypical" mad cow disease detected in the country, one of the world's biggest beef exporters, authorities said Friday.
View ArticleResearchers to look for bovine influenza antibodies in humans
An emerging virus discovered in pigs and later in cows may have affected people without them even knowing it, according to South Dakota State University research assistant professor Natalie Thiex of...
View ArticleDeadly diseases overlooked for too long, scientists say
Decades of neglect have allowed infectious diseases to devastate the lives of thousands of people in the developing world, a study reveals.
View ArticleCompany recalls 4K lbs of beef due to mad cow fear
A Missouri company is recalling possibly tainted beef products distributed to restaurants and a grocery chain.
View ArticleResearchers find infectious prion protein in urine of patients with variant...
The misfolded and infectious prion protein that is a marker for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease – linked to the consumption of infected cattle meat – has been detected in the urine of patients with...
View ArticleFirst successful vaccination against 'mad cow'-like wasting disease in deer
Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center and elsewhere say that a vaccination they have developed to fight a brain-based, wasting syndrome among deer and other animals may hold promise on two...
View ArticleNorway detects "probable" case of mad cow disease
Norway said Wednesday it had detected a "probable" case of mad cow disease but urged consumers not to panic as it may not be the same variant as the British 1990s epidemic.
View ArticleNorway confirms 'atypical' case of mad cow disease
Norwegian authorities confirmed an "atypical" case of mad cow disease Thursday but said that it posed no risk to public health.
View ArticleCanada reports a case of mad cow disease
A case of mad cow disease has been confirmed in a beef cow from Alberta, Canadian officials announced Friday.
View ArticleCanada says mad cow born two years after regulations toughened
Canada's food safety organization says a cow discovered on an Alberta farm with mad cow disease was born two years after the government imposed a tougher ban on animal feed to guard against the disease.
View ArticleClinical trials of VPM1002 as a tuberculosis vaccine in newborns
The only tuberculosis vaccine currently approved, the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, protects children from the most severe forms of the disease in most cases but does not provide protection...
View ArticleNew drug offers hope in fight against mad cow disease
A new drug compound could lead to a breakthrough in the fight against bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the incurable brain-wasting disease also known as mad cow disease, researchers said Wednesday.
View ArticleWhy it's hard to make a bunny mad: Examining prion disease resistance in rabbits
Rabbits have long been considered immune to prion disease, but recently scientists have shown that they can—under certain circumstances—get transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (or TSE, the...
View ArticleFinding a way forward in the fight against prion disease
For much of her adult life Valerie Sim has been fascinated by a disease very few in the world can claim to even begin to understand. Sim is one of Canada's foremost authorities on prion disease—more...
View ArticleInnovation in neurosurgery
As medical students, we don't get much intra-curricular exposure to surgery. Then there is the neurophobia, a chronic condition whose main symptom is the inability to apply knowledge of neuroscience to...
View ArticlePrion disease detected soon after infection and in surprising place in mouse...
Prion diseases—incurable, ultimately fatal, transmissible neurodegenerative disorders of mammals—are believed to develop undetected in the brain over several years from infectious prion protein. In a...
View ArticleNew study maps the progression of Parkinson's disease within the brain
Scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital -The Neuro, at McGill University and the McGill University Health Centre, have made advances in understanding the process involved in the...
View ArticleFrance reports lone case of mad cow disease
France has confirmed an isolated case of mad cow disease in a five-year-old cow that died in the northeast Ardennes region.
View ArticleProtein in breast milk reduces infection risk in premature infants
Full-term babies receive natural protection from their mothers that helps them fight off dangerous infections. However, babies born prematurely lack protective intestinal bacteria and often are unable...
View ArticleA urine test for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease may be possible
Researchers at the MRC Prion Unit at UCL have found that it may be possible to determine whether or not a person has sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (sCJD) by testing their urine for the presence of...
View ArticleIn a first-of-its-kind discovery, bacteria found to form potentially...
Nerve-damaging protein particles called prions have long been known to exist in mammals.
View ArticleModel assesses interventions for bovine tuberculosis in Morocco
n many developing countries, a significant fraction of the tuberculosis burden comes potentially from the tuberculosis bacteria carried by animals, essentially cattle. Efforts to reduce the...
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