Internet documents about prion diseases Roland Heynkes June 2002, CC BY-SA-4.0 DE

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On this meta page I collected and sorted references to documents about BSE, Scrapie and Creutzfeldt-Jakob-Disease in the internet, which can not be found on the scientific sites.

Contents

• new on my site - neu in meiner Sammlung
• scientific articles
• global scientific Reviews on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies
• global scientific Reviews on Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
• global scientific Reviews on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
• specific scientific Reviews
• Comments from prion scientists
• Meetings
• official scientific statements
  • World Health Organization
  • FDA (USA)
  • other
• Reviews and Comments from non - prion scientists
• governmental documents
  • Programs to eradicate BSE in the United Kingdom
  • British Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food - Welsh Office
  • Statements by the British Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
  • Statements by the Secretary of State for Health Stephen Dorrell
  • Statements by the Chief Medical Officer Kenneth Calman
  • MAFF - News Releases
  • USDA, FSIS, APHIS, US Center for Disease Control, AABP Food Safety Committee, General Accounting Office (GAO)
  • CAB International (international, intergovernmental, non-profit organization)
  • German Governments
• Mad Cows, Scientists, Governments and Journalists
• non-scientific agitation (United Kingdom)
• non-scientific agitation (Canada)
• non-scientific agitation (Germany)
• Reviews and articles by journalists (English)
• Reviews and articles by journalists (German)
• Names and addresses
• Specials
• unsorted

new on my site since 1. June 2002

• Gauczynski,S.; Peyrin,J.-M.; Haik,S.; Leucht,C.; Hundt,C.; Rieger,R.; Krasemann,S.; Deslys,J.-P.; Dormont,D.; Lasmezas,C.I; Weiss,S. - The 37 kDa/67 kDa laminin receptor acts as the cell surface receptor for the cellular prion protein - EMBO Journal 2001; 20: 5863-75
• Hundt,C.; Peyrin,J.-M.; Haik,S.; Gauczynski,S.; Leucht,C.; Rieger,R.; Riley,M.-L.; Deslys,J.-P.; Dormont,D.; Lasmezas,C.I.; Weiss,S. - Identification of interaction domains of the prion protein with its 37 kDa/67 kDa laminin receptor - EMBO Journal 2001; 20(21): 5876-86
• Herms,J.W.; Kretzschmar,H. - Zur Funktion des Prion-Proteins als kupferbindendes Protein an der Synapse - http://sfb406.uni-goettingen.de/groups/A10/Herms.html

scientific articles

• Self-Seeded Fibers Formed by Sup35, the Protein Determinant of [PSI+], a Heritable Prion-like Factor of S. cerevisiae by John R. Glover, Anthony S. Kowal, Eric C. Schirmer, Maria M. Patino, Jia-Jia Liu, and Susan Lindquist in Cell, 30 May 1997; Vol. 89: 811-819
• Bossers et al. - Scrapie susceptibility-linked polymorphisms modulate the in vitro conversion of sheep prion protein to protease-resistant forms PNAS 1997; 94(10): 4931
• BSE DIAGNOSTIC TEST, developed by the British drug company Proteus International
• Partial Unfolding and Refolding of Scrapie-Associated Prion Protein: Evidence for a Critical 16-kDa C-Terminal Domain
• The Lancet, Volume 348 Number 9035: Letters to the Editor
• The Lancet, Volume 348 Number 9035: Contents
• Lasmézas et al. 275 (5298):402 - Science On-Line
• Glenn C. Telling, et al., Science 274(5295):2079 - Science On-Line
• Gauczynski,S.; Peyrin,J.-M.; Haik,S.; Leucht,C.; Hundt,C.; Rieger,R.; Krasemann,S.; Deslys,J.-P.; Dormont,D.; Lasmezas,C.I; Weiss,S. - The 37 kDa/67 kDa laminin receptor acts as the cell surface receptor for the cellular prion protein - EMBO Journal 2001; 20: 5863-75
• Hundt,C.; Peyrin,J.-M.; Haik,S.; Gauczynski,S.; Leucht,C.; Rieger,R.; Riley,M.-L.; Deslys,J.-P.; Dormont,D.; Lasmezas,C.I.; Weiss,S. - Identification of interaction domains of the prion protein with its 37 kDa/67 kDa laminin receptor - EMBO Journal 2001; 20(21): 5876-86
• Herms,J.W.; Kretzschmar,H. - Zur Funktion des Prion-Proteins als kupferbindendes Protein an der Synapse - http://sfb406.uni-goettingen.de/groups/A10/Herms.html
• Dreidimensionale Struktur einer Domäne des zellulären Prion-Proteins aufgeklärt - Spektrum der Wissenschaft, September 1996
• A new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the UK - R.G.Will et al. - Lancet 1996; 347: 921-25
• Differentially expressed genes in scrapie-infected neuroblastoma cells - by Katsumi Doh-ura, Sylvia Perryman, Richard Race, and Bruce Chesebro, Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Montana USA
• Rinderwahnsinn - Durch die moderne Medizin erst gefährlich - A combination of published results proves, that the Creutzfeldt Jakob disease can develop and be infectious without a virus. Large amounts of infectious material from cow or sheep are necessary to make infections lethal, but blood or organs from sublethal infected man can cause deadly infections in recipients.
• Scrapie infection of transgenic mice leads to network and intrinsic dysfunction of cortical and hippocampal neurones - Jefferys, Empson, Whittington and Prusiner (USA)
• Are beef herds less affected by BSE? - Dr. Stuart Neilson, director of medical information systems at the Centre for the Study of Health, Brunel University, West London
• Molecular genetics of human prion diseases in Germany - by O. Windl(1), A. Giese(1), T. Jacobsen(1), T. Bogumil(1), M. Neumann(1), T. Weber(2), S. Poser(2) and H. Kretzschmar(1) from (1) Institute for Neuropathology and (2) Institute for Neurology, University Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany, Abstract from the 2nd Workshop Neurogenetics in Germany, Munich, October 19-21, 1995
• Latest Figures Suggest Mixed Messages - UK beef market report from A.C. Nielsen company.
• 1.4 Million Households Have Stopped Buying Beef - UK beef market report from A.C. Nielsen company.
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Gene Mutation Found - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH (30 August 1990)

global scientific Reviews on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies

• Prion Review by Dr. Stuart Neilson
• Prionen: Neuartige Krankheitserreger? - by Charles Weissmann (1 April 1996)
• Heat Shock Proteins, Chaperones and the Prion Encephalopathies - Mini review by Nigel Kenward, Michael Landon, Lajos Lazlo and R John Mayer, University of Nottingham, Medical School, Department of Biochemistry
• Prion Protein replication - Final chapter in "Analysis and prediction of protein structure and protein ligand interactions" from Fred E. Cohen, MD, DPhil, Professor and coworker of S.B. Prusiner
• Short Questions and Answers on: Human and Bovine Prion Diseases, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) - by Dr. Kondi Wong.
• THE REGULATORY DILEMMA OF NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES - review by John Honstead (USA)
• The Prion Diseases - Reprint of a Scientific American review by Stanley B. Prusiner (USA)
• Molecular, biological, genetic and protein structural studies of prion disease - review by S.B.Prusiner (USA)
• Prion Diseases - review (24.3.1996) by Dr. Shaun Heaphy, University Leicester
• Spongiform Encephalopathies (Prion Diseases) - very short review from the Department of Pathology in the Kobiljak Centers, Michigan State University, USA
• The purpose of prions - Ayala Ochert's review of the Prion research
• Spongiform encephalopathies (Prion Diseases) - not very competent description of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies from South Africa

global scientific Reviews on Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

• Prion Diseases - Bug Bytes, LSUMC (US) from the Section of Infectious Diseases at Louisiana State University Medical Center in Shreveport
• About Dementia in Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease - Fachhochschule Lübeck (Germany), Technische Informatik
• CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE: A Guide - Facts collected by the British Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit in the University of Edinburgh, UK
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease - keywords and 2 pictures in relation to the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from the Department of Pathology, Kobiljak Centers, Michigan State University, USA
• Parenchymal Infections: Prions - Gross clinical and microscopical findings in kuru and CJD with images from the Virtual Hospital, University Iowa, last updated July 12, 1995

global scientific Reviews on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - A Backgrounder of the Institute of Food Technologists April 1996 -- G-055
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - Special Reference Briefs - A literature review by Janice C. Swanson, US Maryland Animal Welfare Information Center at the National Agricultural Library of the United States Department of Agriculture in Beltsville Maryland
• rBGH Approval Could Hasten Spread of BSE - article by Michael Hansen PhD (USA)
• Mad Cow Disease - Much more serious than AIDS - review by Michael Greger onthe Animal Rights Resource Site
• A mad, mad, mad, mad world - Article in "Living Marxism" about the social reasons of the BSE epidemic
• More Mad Cow Madness - Commentary in "Living Marxism", Issue 87, February 1996
• The great mad cow panic - Article in "Living Marxism, issue 87, February 1996" about the social reasons of the BSE epidemic
• How Now Mad Cow? - review by Prof. Richard Lacey in Viva guides
• Mad cows and mid-day meals - review by D. Balasubramanian on Hindu Online (India) on 28.3.96
• Dead Meat: Why Mad Cows Are the Least of It - Article by Jeffrey St. Clarke and Alexander Coburn (ARRS) about the American governments handling of the Downer Syndrom, which may be a variant of BSE
• Mad Cow Disease - Just Released -- from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishery & Food (MAFF) of London - Information from the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine about BSE and the Weybridge data, that proof the maternal transmission of BSE

specific scientific Reviews

• Deadly ConformationsProtein Misfolding in Prion Disease by Arthur L. Horwich and Jonathan S. Weissman in Cell May 16, 1997 Review
• Is Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Transmitted in Blood? by Ricketts,M.N.; Cashman,N.R.; Stratton,E.E. and ElSaadany,S. in Emerging Infectious Diseases 1997 Apr-Jun; Vol 3(2) - Updated: 97/05/14
• C&EN 2/9: PRION RESEARCH ACCELERATES Review from Stu Borman in Chemical and Engineering News, February 9, 1998 (American Chemical Society)

Comments from prion scientists

• Collinge-Studie gibt keinen Anlass fuer Entwarnung - Forum Infektionskrankheiten im Deutschen Medizin Forum (Februar 1996)

Meetings

• Workshop on TSE Risks in Relation to Source Material, Processing, and End-Product Use at the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition at College Park, University of Maryland
• BSE Meeting at CDC - Conclusions of the meeting at the Center for Disease Control in Emerging Infectious Diseases Vol 2 No 2 April-June 1996
• Report Of Meeting On Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on 8 April 1996
• Greens on Mad Cow Disease - On-Line news briefs from the green group in the EuropeanParliament from the 27-28 March 1996 "Mini-Session" in Brussels

official scientific statements

World Health Organization

• Excerpts from report of WHO Consultation on Clinical and Neuropathological Characteristics of the New Variant of CJD and Other Human and Animal Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies, Geneva, Switzerland 14 to 16 May 1996 (with the participation of OIE) - Scientists talking about the new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and its possible link to BSE
• WHO - Press Release, 17 May 1996 - SCIENTIFIC CONSULTATION ON HUMAN AND ANIMAL SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHIES Press Release about WHO- consultation on the possible connection between BSE and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
• Press Release WHO/28 - 3.4.1996 Rev.1 (15.4.96) - Some international experts recommend measures against the spread of BSE and to reduce the risks to humans
• Report of WHO Consultation on Public Health Issues related to Human and Animal Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies, with the participation of FAO and OIE, Geneva, Switzerland 2-3 April 1996
• WHO Fact sheet N113 März 1996 - World Health Organization Emerging and Other Communicable Diseases (EMC) Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Fact Sheet on 3/30/96
• WHO: Spongiform encephalopathies - Report of the WHO Informal Consultation on BSE in the UK, Geneva, 7-May-1993 and Report of a WHO Consultation on Public Health Issues Related to Animal and Human Spongiform Encephalopathies, Geneva, 12-14 November 1991

FDA (USA)

• Automatic detention of Bulk shipments of high risk Bovine Tissue material - US FDA Alert on 3.5.1996
• FDA proposes prohibiting sheep and goat offal in ruminant feed - US FDA Vetnews 31.8.94 (USA)

others

• Numbers of cases of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy in Great Britan and worldwide - Office International des Epizooties
• BSE Inquiry draft report in several languages
• Programme to eradicate BSE in the United Kingdom (MAFF original document issued 31 May 1996)
• A single case of BSE in Denmark August 1992 - Short article by Susanne Ammendrup on the single imported BSE case in Denmark, and on Denmarks status as a BSE-free country.

Reviews and Comments from non prion scientists

• Gefahr durch Rinderwahnsinn? - alter Minireview ohne links von Dr. Roland H. Knauer im GSF-Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit
• NetDoktor.de - Krankheiten: Creutzfeldt-Jakob-Krankheit von Andreas Ploch
• BSE, Creutzfeldt-Jakob & Co. oder: Ist Wahnsinn übertragbar? - Ein Artikel des Graduiertenkollegs über Prionkrankheiten, der leider nicht einmal den wahren Urheber der Prionhypothese kennt und die BSE-Seite von WDR-Quarks für eine der beiden wichtigsten im Internet hält.
• Rinderwahnsinn BSE - Gefahr noch nicht gebannt - ein schlecht recherchierter Übersichtsartikel mit teilweise lebensgefährlichen Falschinformationen von Stefan Weigt für den Verband für Unabhängige Gesundheitsberatung (UGB)
• Dr. Neal D. Barnard for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine about prion diseases
• Prion Diseases of Brain - some information about the damages on the brain by Carol Fox and Jeffrey Norris
• Mad cow disease: The BSE epidemic in Great Britain An Interview with Dr. F.A. Murphy, Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis
• Gefahr durch Rinderwahnsinn? - 22 März 1996 von Dr. Roland H. Knauer, GSF - Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - Fact Sheet No. 11. prepared and edited by John M. Harper and John Maas, DVM, MS Diplomate, ACVN & ACVIM Extension Veterinarian, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California-Davis BSE and Pet Food a chapter in a document from Dr. Lowell Ackerman, last updated on 7.September 1996
• The precautionary principle - the lessons of BSE - Commentary from Michael Warhurst, Edinburgh University
• RebPage News: BSE beef: no threat for humans? - uncritical Commentary to Collinge's misinterpretation of his own data
• Dementia in Creutzfeldt Jakob disease - clinical describtion of the Creutzfeldt Jakob disease and a diagnostic guideline in an Online-Medicin -Lexicon compiled by an Institut for Informatics in Lübeck
• Don't Call It "Mad Cow Disease" or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) "Just the Facts". By Jim Floyd, DVM, Extension Veterinarian, Auburn University, March 29, 1996
• Scrapie and prions, short introduction in plain English - by Chris Seidel, University of California at Berkeley, USA
• Some notes on Scrapie - Details of current prion research and findings, Chris Seidel, September 1995
• Scrapie/prion literature references Written and compiled by Chris Seidel.
• Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Creutzfeldt-Jakob, kuru and related agents) - Safety information for humans bSE & CJD Prepared by the Office of Radiation, Chemical & Biological Safety at Michigan State University, converted and edited by Stefan Wagener
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - Exotic disease of the month - April 1996, The Australian Veterinary Emergency Plan -- summary document full of mistakes by Dr. Ian C. Douglas

gouvernmental documents

Programme to eradicate BSE in the United Kingdom

• Programme to eradicate BSE in the United Kingdom - MAFF, UK, 31 May 1996 - executive summary
• Programme to eradicate BSE in the United Kingdom - MAFF, UK, 31 May 1996 - full document
• Eradicating BSE in Britain: leaflet issued 31 May 1996
• BSE: Government measures to assist the beef industry - MAFF, 19 August 1996

British Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food - Welsh Office

• Beef sector: information note on slaughter of 30 month plus cattle (2 May 1996)
• Information note 2 on slaughter of 30 month plus cattle (10 May 1996)
• BSE: information for farmers (10 June 1996)
• BSE: information for farmers (26 July 1996)
• BSE and your health - Is British beef safe to eat?
• MAFF, UK: BSE, a chronology of events
• BSE: a short bibliography
• MAFF, UK: BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) Statistics

Statements by the British Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

• Statement of 20 March 1996 by Agriculture Minister Douglas Hogg to House of Commons
• Statement of 25 March 1996 by Agriculture Minister Douglas Hogg to House of Commons
• 28 March 1996 - Hogg acts on urgent beef aid
• 3 April 1996 - Tackling the beef crisis
• UK to challenge beef ban in European Court - Press release 16 April 1996
• Statement of 16 April 1996 by Agriculture Minister Douglas Hogg to the House of Commons

Statements by the Secretary of State for Health Stephen Dorrell

• Monthly Creutzfeldt-Jakob-Figures - Department of Health, Press release 3 March 1997
• Monthly Creutzfeldt-Jakob-Figures - Department of Health, Press release 3 March 1997
• Research on TSE - Department of Health, Press release 6 February 1997
• Press release - Department of Health
• Press release - Department of Health
• Press release - Department of Health
• CJD and public health - Stephen Dorrell Statement 20 March 1996
• CJD and children - Stephen Dorrell Statement 25 March 1996
• Stephen Dorrell's opening statement to joint meeting of agriculture and health select commitees - attempt to Joint Meeting Of Agriculture And Health Select Committees: 27 March 1996

Statements by the Chief Medical Officer Kenneth Calman

• CJD and public health - statement by the Chief Medical Officer (20 March 1996)
• CJD and children - statement by the Chief Medical Officer (25 March 1996)

MAFF - News Releases

• 'Finishing cattle by 30 months': MAFF issues advisory booklet (20 August 1996)
• Calf Processing Aid Scheme - age limit (14 August 1996)
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - compensation (September rates) (13 August 1996)
• Launch of Beef Assurance Scheme (9 August 1996)
• BSE Enforcement Bulletin published (5 August 1996)
• Beef Marketing Payment Scheme (2 August 1996)
• Agriculture Departments launch study into cattle database (2 August 1996)
• BSE research findings (1 August 1996)
• Over thirty month scheme - deadweight coefficient (30 July 1996)
• Hogg announces aid package for beef producers (24 July 1996)
• SEAC advice on sheep (24 July 1996)
• Angela Browning launches beef initiative (22 July 1996)
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - compensation (August rates) (15 July 1996)
• Government consults on proposals for accelerated slaughter of cattle (3 July 1996)
• Turning the corner on difficult times (1 July 1996)
• BSE progress report published (1 July 1996)
• Cattle passports (28 June 1996)
• Boost for beef farmers (26 June 1996)
• Eligibility for top up payments for heifers in over thirty month scheme (21 June 1996)
• Florence opens the door for free market in beef (21 June 1996)
• Extra grazing land for UK cattle (19 June 1996)
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - compensation (July rates) (18 June 1996)
• Top-up payments under the 30 month plus cattle scheme (18 June 1996)
• Government response to report on non-saleable beef (17 June 1996)
• Extra funds for BSE research (12 June 1996)
• Action to destroy last stocks of BSE feed (10 June 1996)
• Ministers accept advice that BSE does not pose a risk to the environment (7 June 1996)
• Government consults on proposals for a system of mandatory cattle passports (7 June 1996)
• Over 30-month scheme: 100,000 animals processed in first month (6 June 1996)
• Cattle grazing on set-aside to get go ahead soon (5 June 1996)
• Agriculture Minister presents proposals on action to eradicate BSE (3 June 1996)
• UK cattle to be permitted to graze set aside land (30 May 1996)
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - compensation (June rates) (29 May 1996)
• Calculation of compensation for BSE suspect animals to reflect market support scheme (24 May 1996)
• Arrangements for handling casualty animals under 30 months scheme (24 May 1996)
• Beef ban: UK takes its case to European court (24 May 1996)
• Advance payments for producers in 30 month scheme (16 May 1996)
• Industry must work together to make slaughter scheme work - Tony Baldry (7 May 1996)
• Government consults on proposals for a mature beef assurance scheme (3 May 1996)
• Government issues details of cattle slaughter scheme (1 May 1996)
• Government introduces cattle birth record documents (30 April 1996)
• Eliminating BSE: further measures (25 April 1996)
• Meat and bone meal in fertilisers banned for use in agriculture (18 April 1996)
• UK to challenge beef ban in European Court (16 April 1996)
• Tackling the beef crisis (3 April 1996)
• Measures to aid beef industry (29 March 1996)
• Hogg acts on urgent beef aid (28 March 1996)
• BSE: public health top priority says Hogg, including Minister's statement (20 March 1996)
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - compensation (April rates) (13 March 1996)
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - compensation (March rates) (16 February 1996)
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - compensation (February rates) (12 January 1996)
• Minister announces further new member of SEAC (20 December 1995)
• New members of SEAC (14 December 1995)
• Minister tightens BSE controls (14 December 1995)
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - compensation (January rates) (12 December 1995)
• Minister announces tightening of BSE controls (28 November 1995)
• BSE safety checks (13 November 1995)
• Tightening the rules on BSE (19 July 1995)
• BSE Progress Report published (18 May 1995)
• Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC): a summary of present knowledge and research (7 February 1995)

USDA, FSIS, APHIS, US Center for Disease Control, AABP Food Safety Committee

• GAO: FDA Must Improve Feed Ban Compliance, Inspection Database
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) - Questions and Answers from the American Center for Disease Control
• APHIS Web -- Additional Information about BSE Prevention
• APHIS Web -- Charts and Graphs on BSE Surveillance
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Factsheet - Dawn Kent, September 1996
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - Latest US Situation (2.4.96) from the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
• Veterinary Biologics Notice - Status on BSE in the USA by Dr. John H. Payne, Acting Director Biotechnology, Biologics and Environmental Protection
• USDA, U.S. Public Health Service announce additional steps, support for industry efforts to keep U.S. free of BSE - Outline of additional voluntary steps taken by the US livestock industry and government support to ensure the US remains free of bSE. The steps include a voluntary ban on feeding ruminant-derived protein supplements to ruminants.
• Questions and Answers about bovine spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) - A US Perspective from cowtown.org. 21 March 1996
• Government of Alberta News Release - official clearance certificate, 26.3.96
• Scapie Factsheet - Dawn Kent, September 1996
• Scrapie - Fact Sheet Veterinary Services June 1993 - by Kendra Pratt, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), U.S. Department of Agriculture
• Cronic Wasting Disease Factsheet - Kendra Pratt, May 1996
• DIVISION REMINDS NORTHEAST COLORADO HUNTERS ABOUT DEER, ELK SHOWING SIGNS OF WASTING DISEASE

CAB International (international, intergovernmental, non-profit organization)

• Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies Adapted from the special coverage in September's Public Health News by CAB International

German Governments

• Berichte des Bundeslandwirtschaftsministers Borchert über Tagungen des EU-Agrarrates
• Bekämpfung der britischen Rinderseuche BSE: Agrarpolitische Mitteilung des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten 4 April 1996
• BSE-Risiko so weit einschränken wie möglich - bgvv-p8 (Mai 1996)
• Aktuelle Informationen zum Thema BSE - Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten (FAQ)

Mad Cows, Scientists, Governments and Journalists

• BBC News | Americas | US considers British blood ban
• Reactions of A Kindly Nature by Ed Gerhman

non-scientific agitation

non-scientific agitation (United Kingdom)

• BSE investigator exposes the dangers of rendering plant (Report from the International Worker - The British Socialist Equality Party)
• An interview with Harash Narang (Report from the International Worker - The British Socialist Equality Party)
• New variant of CJD claims 16th victim (Report from the International Worker - The British Socialist Equality Party)
• "They have used everything to discredit us" (Report from the International Worker - The British Socialist Equality Party)
• Mother speaks out on BSE/CJD cover-up (Report from the International Worker - The British Socialist Equality Party)
• Public meetings prepare for inquiry into BSE/CJD (Report from the International Worker - The British Socialist Equality Party)
• Link between BSE and CJD proved (Report from the International Worker - The British Socialist Equality Party)
• Lives of workers in Ashford blighted by BSE crisis (Report from the International Worker - The British Socialist Equality Party)
• Europeans at Risk from Mad Cow Disease - 10 August 1995 Viva!
• Europeans Also at Risk from Mad Cow Disease - 10 August 1995 Viva!
• The Watergate of the Meat Industry - The Vegetarian Society UK, 5 December 1994, press release
• the company - McDonald's, Mad Cows and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
  - agitation against McDonald's by McSpotlight
• You'd be mad to eat cow - a vegetarian article and many BSE-links by the multinational McInformation Network
• Letter to the Press from the McLibel Two - Dave Morris and Helen Steel, The MyLibel Defendants
• Embargo until 10.30 AM Wednesday 27 March - Howard Lyman Press Conference
• A Message to our Customers - McDonald's stops selling British beef
• McDonald's & BSE - The Facts - McLibel Support Campaign Press Release, 23 March 1996

non-scientific agitation (Canada)

• A Joint Statement by National Livestock and Professional Animal Health Organizations regarding a Voluntary Ban on Ruminant Derived Protein Feed Recommended March 29, 1996 - The organizations include National Cattlemen's Beef Association, the American Sheep Industry Association, the National Milk Producers Federation, the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Association of Bovine Practitioners and the American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges.
• Bovine Sponguform Encephalopathy (BSE) Fact Sheet - Questions and Answers about Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) by Canadian Beef Information Centre (BIC), canadian National Cattlemen's Beef Association
• Bovine Sponguform Encephalopathy (BSE) Fact Sheet - Questions and Answers about Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) by Canadian Beef Information Centre (BIC), canadian National Cattlemen's Be
• EarthSave Canada BSE/CJD Press Release - Presseerklärung von Ron Tanguay, dem Präsidenten von EarthSave Canada über den möglichen Zusammenhang zwischen BSE und das nordamerikanische Downer Syndrom
• 26 March 1996, Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development's press release
• Regulatory Guide to Medicinal Products in the European Union - a short chapter in a Business Guide from Dunbartonshire Enterprise

non-scientific agitation (Germany)

• Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung e. V. mit einer gnadenlos verharmlosenden Lobbyarbeit für die Fleischindustrie
• Rinderwahnsinn - längst in deutschen Landen? - Editorial von Udo Pollmer ohne Quellenangaben für die wie Tatsachen dargestellten Behauptungen. Besonders interessant wäre ein Beweis für das Märchen von den Prionen zerstörenden Lösungsmitteln.
• BSE - Rinderwahnsinn - Stiftung Ökologie und Landbau
• BSE - Rinderwahnsinn - Geschichte und Zahlen - by Stiftung Ökologie & Landbau
• Ursache, Übertragung und Nachweis von BSE - by Stiftung Ökologie & Landbau
• Scrapie - by Stiftung Ökologie & Landbau
• Downer Cow Syndrome (DCS) - by Stiftung Ökologie & Landbau
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob-Krankheit (CJK) - by Stiftung Ökologie & Landbau
• Hausgemachte Seuche - by Stiftung Ökologie & Landbau
• Politische und wissenschaftliche Dimension - by Stiftung Ökologie & Landbau
• Ökologischer Landbau als Alternative - by Stiftung Ökologie & Landbau
• Hinweise für Verbraucher - by Stiftung Ökologie & Landbau
• Literatur - by Stiftung Ökologie & Landbau
• Die CMA informiert zum Thema BSE (leider fehlerhaft)

Reviews and articles by journalists

Reviews and articles by journalists (English)

• Findings of the 'Inquiry into the use of Pituitary Derived Hormones in Australia and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease' June 1994 by Margot Kingston, published in the 'Canberra Times' on 2nd July 1994
• Mad cows and Englishmen - Ignorance and confusion surround mad-cow disease. These pages look at what is, and is not, known about it and ist human equivalent. - Article from The Economist 30/3/96
• Mad(e) in Britain - Article from The Economist 30/3/96 Describes the news surrounding the recent events
• Cash for cows - Predictions that Britain's economy will be seriously damaged by the scare over mad-cow disease are exaggerated - Article from The Economist 30/3/96 Describes the economic impact of the recent events in the UK.
• Apocalypse maybe - Sometimes governments must respond to unknown probabilities of extremely unpleasant outcomes. Can economic theory help? - Article from The Economist 30/3/96 An example of using payoff matrices in economic decisions relating to agriculture.
• A Cult of Proteins: - by Josie Glausiusz, Article in the Discovery Magazine, Februar 1995
• Post mortem BSE-Test, developed by the British drug company Proteus International - old story from Reuter (London)
• Tighter Curbs on Mad Cow Disease (BSE) - by David Fletcher, Electronic Telegraph 1995
• Public concern: Is it really justified? - Belfast Telegraph Online, December 1995
• Government Claims Challenged - The Manchester Guardian Weekly, 26 November 1995
• Farmer Dies of Mad Cow Disease - London (AP)

Reviews and articles by journalists (German)

• Die Forschung glaubt, neue Erkenntnisse über BSE gewonnen zu haben - Andreas Sentker in DIE ZEIT, 21 Juni 1996
• Die Entfesselung der Prionen - GEO, Mai 1996
• EU-Gerichtshof bestätigt Exportverbot für Rinder - Die britische Regierung zeigte sich ernüchtert - Die Welt 13 July 1996
• Heereman: Großbritanniens BSE-Politik gefährdet deutsche Betriebe - Germany-Live 13 July 1996
• EuGh weist zweite britische Klage gegen Rinder-Exportverbot zurück - Germany-Live 13 July 1996
• EU-Kommission mit Gerichtsurteil zum Rinder-Exportverbot zufrieden - Germany-Live 12 July 1996
• 95mal Creutzfeldt-Jakob - Berliner Zeitung (BerlinOnline)12 July 1996
• Bonn stoppt Import von BSE-Fleisch - Alarmierende Zwischenbilanz der wirtschaftlichen Folgen der BSE-Krise gezogen - Die Welt 11 July 1996
• Streit mit EU um Rindfleisch-Import - Berliner Zeitung (BerlinOnline) 11 July 1996
• "Mannheimer Morgen" zu Rinderwahnsinn - Germany-Live 11 July 1996
• Fortschritt in BSE-Forschung - Praktische Anwendung weit entfernt - Germany-Live 10 July 1996
• Regierung verlängerte Importstopp für BSE-Rinder - Germany-Live 10 July 1996
• Desinformationen bei BSE? Sitzungsvermerk sorgt für Aufregung - Kommission bezweifelt Echtheit des Papiers - Die Welt 9 July 1996
• POLITIK BSE-Skandal - Berliner Zeitung (BerlinOnline) 9 July 1996
• Frankreich: Herde geschlachtet - Berliner Zeitung (BerlinOnline) 9 July 1996
• EU-Kommission: Nichts über BSE vertuscht - Brüssel räumt die Möglichkeit illegaler Rindfleischexporte aus Großbritannien ein> - Berliner Zeitung (BerlinOnline) 9 July 1996
• "Offenbach-Post" zu BSE/EU/Großbritannien - Germany-Live 9 July 1996
• "Mitteldeutsche Zeitung" (Halle) zu BSE/EU/Großbritannien - Germany-Live 9 July 1996
• Bauern in Bayern fordern Importstopp für Rinder aus Osteuropa - Germany-Live 8 July 1996
• Illegaler Rindfleischexport? - Berliner Zeitung (BerlinOnline) 8 July 1996
• Bonn ersucht EU-Kommission um Aufklärung angeblicher Rinderexporte - Germany-Live 6 July 1996
• Darf ich Schuhe aus Rinderleder tragen? - Rainer Zitelmann, Die Welt 3.4.1996
• Entstehungsgeschichte der Bovine Spongiforme Enzephalopathie (BSE) - short review by Dr. Mathias Schulenburg - March 1996
• Die Gefahr des Rinderwahnsinns - Die Welt, 22 March 1996
• Mysteriöse Krankheitsfälle - Die Welt, 28.10.1995
• Rinderwahn short review by Norbert Dohn and Tom Hergermann for the WDR

Names and addresses

• Addresses of Prion Researchers - collected by Dr. Thomas Pringle
• Addresses of TSE-Staticians - collected by PrionData

Specials

• Research Projects in Australia
• Mass-diseases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Mad Cow Disease) are caused by artificial spreading of retroviral particles bred in Campylobacter microbes
• Visual comparison of the polarity profiles of prion proteins from sheep, cattle, pig, mink and man
• BSE - A Two-Part Horizon Special - Part One: The Invisible Enemy (by Bettina Lerner)
• BSE - A Two-Part Horizon Special - Part Two: The human Experiment (by Bettina Lerner)
• Forscher aus Leidenschaft - ein Portrait von Charles Weissmann im Unizürich Magazin
• The Meat Industry and Other Animal Books - The Vegetarian Society UK (Spring 1993)
• London Times articles on bSE. Scan the list of articles for Mad Cow Disease. You can also search to get some back issue articles.
• Genbank search - You can find many nucleic acid sequences by asking for "prion"
• BSE Experts - Contact information for US BSE
• bSE Experts Response from Ralph Blanchfield of the UK Institute of Food Science & Tech. to a request on BSE-L for info on experts.

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• CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE (CJD) AND BLOOD - TRANSFUSION MEDICINE UPDATE, Arell Shapiro, M.D., Institute For Transfusion Medicine, November / December, 1998
• BSE: Does the U.S. Need to be Concerned? - By Bernadette Dunham, DVM, Ph.D., Governmental Relations Division, American Veterinary Medical Association
• ENCEFALOPATIAS ESPONGIFORMES TRANSMISIBLES - Informe elaborado por la DIRECCION DE CUARENTENA ANIMAL BUENOS AIRES, FEBRERO DE 1999
• REACTIONS OF A KINDLY NATURE - Mad Cows & Mad Scientists by Ed Gherman
• Biosafety in Biomedical and Microbiological Laboratories - Section VII-D: Prions - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health
• Prioonid -- iseäralikud haigusetekitajad - by Mart Viikmaa, 1997
• (bijgewerkt augustus 1998)
• Assessment of Risk of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in Pharmaceutical Products - Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America BSE Committee
• Prion diseases: A brief history - minireview on the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Survival Guide of Doug Eshleman
• Prion Disease Group at the University College Dublin
• Prion Diseases by Adriano Aguzzi and Charles Weissmann
• Section VII-D: Prions - BMBL Section VII, Agent Summary Statements
• Animals Dead from Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis - an abstract collection
• Prion Protein Domain PrP (121-231) - a hypothetical conformation of a prion protein domain
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and related disorders Part 1 - a short review of the Chemist James H. Bedino
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Fact Sheet by the Office of Communications and Public Liaison, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health
• Spiroplasma may cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease - an interview with Frank O. Bastian, MD, professor of pathology and director of neuropathology at the University of South Alabama, Mobile
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Hemophilia: Assessment of Risk - a review of Bruce Evatt, M.D.
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease - a monograph of the Hemophilia Foundation of Southern California
• BSE - Rinderwahnsinn und CJK - Creutzfeldt-Jakob-Krankheit - ein ziemlich unseriöses Interview mit einem angeblichen Experten
• Chronic Wasting Disease Briefing Statement - Wyoming Game and Fish Department