Model 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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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