14 October 2010
THE HAGUE (BNO NEWS) -- A 13-year-old cow in the Netherlands on Thursday was found to be infected with BSE, which is commonly known as 'mad-cow disease', according to the country's Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality.
Thursday's case is the second case of BSE in the Netherlands since May 2008. The other case was reported on September 3 when a cow was diagnosed with BSE at a farm in Tilburg, near the border with Belgium.
The ministry on Thursday said the cow had died on a farm in country, but did not reveal where the farm was located. "We can expect to see several more BSE-cases during the next few years," the ministry said in a statement.
This is because a number of cows are still alive from before a European Union feed ban went into effect on January 1, 2001. That ban prohibits certain animal products from being fed to cows, which can lead to BSE being spread among cows.
The Netherlands tested around 405,000 cattle in 2009, while around 7.5 million cattle were tested throughout the European Union. A total of 67 BSE cases were found, all of which were outside of the Netherlands.
The ministry said there is no need to take action because cows cannot infect each other with BSE. "But, as usual, the animals who were born on the same farm around the same time as the infected animal or ate the same food will be examined, as well as their offspring."
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http://channel6newsonline.com/2010/10/netherlands-reports-2nd-bse-case-this-year/
PLEASE SEE FULL REPORT HERE ;
http://www.oie.int/wahis/public.php?page=single_report&pop=1&reportid=9852
also please see ;
PPo2-6:
Molecular Characterisation of Seven Austrian BSE Isolates: Two L-Type Cases and a Special C-Type Case
Jan P.M. Langeveld,1 Jo H.F. Erkens,1 Jorg G. Jacobs,1 Alex Bossers,1 Ines Rammel2 and Hermann Schildorfer2 1Central Veterinary Institute of Wageningen UR; Lelystad, The Netherlands; 2Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety; Mödling, Austria
Key words: BSE, prion, diagnosis, strain type, subtype
Common bovine spongiform encephalopathy (C-type BSE) has been accounted for spread of the BSE-epidemic from UK to other countries. Rare aberrant BSE types H and L have been found in animals aging eight years and more. In Austria only seven cases of BSE have been detected. Two were from six year old animals, the others were derived from animals above age ten. Therefore, the potential presence of aberrant types was investigated. Similar methods as before published by Jacobs et al. (J Clin Microbiol 2007; 45:1821) were used; PrPres analysis was performed on western blots using group A, B and C antibodies as well as investigation of the susceptibility for digestion with proteinase K (PK). Five cases behaved as C-type, while two cases had typical properties of L-type BSE or BASE. The ages of these two animals were 11 and 12.5 yr. One of the C-type cases (age 12.5 yr) behaved peculiar in the way that its binding to antibodies 12B2 and P4 was relatively strong compared to that of core antibody L42. Finding all three different BSE types in cattle is most probable in cattle of 10 years and older. The fact that types L and H are also found in low incidence countries like Austria, Sweden, USA, Japan and Canada is indicative for natural presence of sporadic BSE in different forms. Safeguarding the food chain for BSE is only sensible when the old age animals are included in active monitoring (Funders: Dutch LNV ministry, Austrian AGES).
http://www.prion2010.org/bilder/prion_2010_program_latest_w_posters_4_.pdf?139&PHPSESSID=a30a38202cfec579000b77af81be3099
10. 09. 10. - 12:00
Dead cow had BSE, test shows Austria has been hit by the eighth case of mad-cow disease (BSE) this year.
The federal health ministry announced today (Fri) post mortem tests have shown that a 15-year-old cow which died of old age on a farm in the Lower Austrian district of Wiener Neustadt had the disease.
The ministry, headed by Social Democrat (SPÖ) Alois Stöger, stressed customers’ health had not been endangered since none of the animal's meat had gone on sale.
Meanwhile, People’s Party (ÖVP) Environment Minister Nikolaus Berlakovich unveiled plans to set up a country-wide egg-farming database.
Berlakovich’s initiative comes after it emerged that a Styrian firm imported substandard eggs from Poland and Hungary to sell them as local products.
The minister said he thought of the already existing anti-BSE database as an example for the planned egg-trading platform.
Berlakovich said all traders and sellers of eggs will have to inform authorities about their business activities by entering sale figures and other information in the database.
http://austrianindependent.com/news/General_News/2010-09-10/4529/Dead_cow_had_BSE,_test_shows
Pressemeldungen 09.09.2010 15:37 Gesundheitsministerium bestätigt 8. BSE-Fall in Österreich Wien (BGF) - Am Dienstag, den 7. September 2010, wurde ein 1995 geborenes Rind aus Niederösterreich im Zuge der Untersuchung von sogenannten Risikotieren im Rahmen eines Schnelltests positiv auf BSE getestet. Das Untersuchungsergebnis wurde heute, Donnerstag, den 9. September, durch das nationale Referenzlabor der Österreichischen Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit (AGES) in Mödling endgültig bestätigt. Da das Tier bereits verendet war und eine Untersuchung in der Tierkörperverwertung veranlasst wurde, bestand keine Gefahr, dass Fleisch in die Lebensmittelkette gelangte. Es handelt sich um den insgesamt achten BSE-Fall in Österreich.
Die Veterinärbehörde Niederösterreich hat in Abstimmung mit dem Bundesministerium für Gesundheit unverzüglich alle notwendigen Vorkehrungen getroffen. "Durch die gute Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Bundes- und Landesbehörden, bestand nie ein Risiko für die Konsumentinnen und Konsumenten. Das zeigt auch, dass die Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung von BSE und zur Absicherung des Konsumentenschutzes greifen", betonte Gesundheitsminister Alois Stöger. Weitere Informationen zum Thema BSE: http://www.bmg.gv.at Rückfragehinweis: Bundesministerium für Gesundheit Fabian Fußeis, Pressesprecher Radetzkystraße 2, 1030 Wien Tel.: +43/1/71100-4505 , Fax: +43/1/71100-14304 mailto:fabian.fusseis@bmg.gv.at
http://www.bmg.gv.at Digitale Pressemappe:
http://www.ots.at/pressemappe/52/aom
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http://www.bmg.gv.at/cms/site/presse_detail.html?channel=CH0616&doc=CMS1284039658617
News Am Dienstag, den 7. September 2010, wurde ein 1995 geborenes Rind aus Niederösterreich im Zuge der Untersuchung von sogenannten Risikotieren im Rahmen eines Schnelltests positiv auf BSE getestet. Das Untersuchungsergebnis wurde am Donnerstag, den 09. September, durch das nationale Referenzlabor der Österreichischen Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit (AGES) in Mödling endgültig bestätigt. Da das Tier bereits verendet war und eine Untersuchung in der Tierkörperverwertung veranlasst wurde, bestand keine Gefahr, dass Fleisch in die Lebensmittelkette gelangte. Es handelt sich um den insgesamt achten BSE-Fall in Österreich. Die Veterinärbehörde Niederösterreich hat in Abstimmung mit dem Bundesministerium für Gesundheit unverzüglich alle notwendigen Vorkehrungen getroffen. „Durch die gute Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Bundes- und Landesbehörden, bestand nie ein Risiko für die Konsumentinnen und Konsumenten. Das zeigt auch, dass die Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung von BSE und zur Absicherung des Konsumentenschutzes greifen“, betonte Gesundheitsminister Alois Stöger.
Aktuelle Informationen BSE (DOC 42 KB) 9.09.2010 - 8. Fall bestätigt
http://www.bmg.gv.at/cms/site/news_detail.html?channel=CH0518&doc=CMS1284038655071
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Thursday, October 07, 2010
Experimental Transmission of H-type Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy to Bovinized Transgenic Mice
http://bse-atypical.blogspot.com/2010/10/experimental-transmission-of-h-type.html
Saturday, October 2, 2010
BSE surveillance front and centre: CFIA and USA
http://madcowtesting.blogspot.com/2010/10/bse-surveillance-front-and-centre-cfia.html
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Variant CJD: where has it gone, or has it?
Pract Neurol 2010; 10: 250–251
http://vcjdtransfusion.blogspot.com/2010/09/variant-cjd-where-has-it-gone-or-has-it.html
Saturday, August 14, 2010
BSE Case Associated with Prion Protein Gene Mutation (g-h-BSEalabama) and VPSPr PRIONPATHY
(see mad cow feed in COMMERCE IN ALABAMA...TSS)
http://prionpathy.blogspot.com/2010/08/bse-case-associated-with-prion-protein.html
THIS is why this question is so important to me, IS h-BSE more or less virulent than the c-BSE ?
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
re-Freedom of Information Act Project Number 3625-32000-086-05, Study of Atypical BSE UPDATE July 28, 2010
http://bse-atypical.blogspot.com/2010/07/re-freedom-of-information-act-project.html
CJD TEXAS 38 YEAR OLD FEMALE WORKED SLAUGHTERING CATTLE EXPOSED TO BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD MATTER
>>> Up until about 6 years ago, the pt worked at Tyson foods where she worked on the assembly line, slaughtering cattle and preparing them for packaging. She was exposed to brain and spinal cord matter when she would euthanize the cattle. <<<
http://www.recordandoalinda.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19:cjd-english-info&catid=9:cjd-ingles&Itemid=8
Terry S. Singeltary Sr. has added the following comment:
"According to the World Health Organisation, the future public health threat of vCJD in the UK and Europe and potentially the rest of the world is of concern and currently unquantifiable. However, the possibility of a significant and geographically diverse vCJD epidemic occurring over the next few decades cannot be dismissed
The key word here is diverse. What does diverse mean?
If USA scrapie transmitted to USA bovine does not produce pathology as the UK c-BSE, then why would CJD from there look like UK vCJD?"
SEE FULL TEXT ;
http://www.promedmail.org/pls/apex/f?p=2400:1001:568933508083034::NO::F2400_P1001_BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_PUB_MAIL_ID:1000,82101
.57 The experiment which might have determined whether BSE and scrapie were caused by the same agent (ie, the feeding of natural scrapie to cattle) was never undertaken in the UK. It was, however, performed in the USA in 1979, when it was shown that cattle inoculated with the scrapie agent endemic in the flock of Suffolk sheep at the United States Department of Agriculture in Mission, Texas, developed a TSE quite unlike BSE. 32 The findings of the initial transmission, though not of the clinical or neurohistological examination, were communicated in October 1988 to Dr Watson, Director of the CVL, following a visit by Dr Wrathall, one of the project leaders in the Pathology Department of the CVL, to the United States Department of Agriculture. 33 The results were not published at this point, since the attempted transmission to mice from the experimental cow brain had been inconclusive. The results of the clinical and histological differences between scrapie-affected sheep and cattle were published in 1995. Similar studies in which cattle were inoculated intracerebrally with scrapie inocula derived from a number of scrapie-affected sheep of different breeds and from different States, were carried out at the US National Animal Disease Centre. 34 The results, published in 1994, showed that this source of scrapie agent, though pathogenic for cattle, did not produce the same clinical signs of brain lesions characteristic of BSE.
32 Clark, W., Hourrigan, J. and Hadlow, W. (1995) Encephalopathy in Cattle Experimentally Infected with the Scrapie Agent, American Journal of Veterinary Research, 56, 606-12
33 YB88/10.00/1.1
http://web.archive.org/web/20040823105233/www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1988/10/00001001.pdf
Discussion: The C, L and H type BSE cases in Canada exhibit molecular characteristics similar to those described for classical and atypical BSE cases from Europe and Japan. This supports the theory that the importation of BSE contaminated feedstuff is the source of C-type BSE in Canada. It also suggests a similar cause or source for atypical BSE in these countries.
http://www.prion2009.com/sites/default/files/Prion2009_Book_of_Abstracts.pdf
2009 UPDATE ON ALABAMA AND TEXAS MAD COWS 2005 and 2006
http://bse-atypical.blogspot.com/2006/08/bse-atypical-texas-and-alabama-update.html
REPORT OF THE WORKING PARTY ON BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY 1989
snip...
4.2.9 ...Also, if it resulted from a localised chance transmission of the scrapie strain from sheep to cattle giving rise to a mutant, a different pattern of disease would have been expected: its range would have increased with time. Thus the evidence from Britain is against the disease being due to a new strain of the agent, but we note that in the United States from 1984 to 1988 outbreaks of scrapie in sheep flocks are reported to have Increased markedly, now being nearly 3 times as high as during any previous period (18).
http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20080102132706/http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/ib/ibd1/tab02.pdf
http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20080102193106/http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/mb/m12/tab12.pdf
THIS is just ONE month report, of TWO recalls of prohibited banned MBM, which is illegal, mixed with 85% blood meal, which is still legal, but yet we know the TSE/BSE agent will transmit blood. we have this l-BSE in North America that is much more virulent and there is much concern with blood issue and l-BSE as there is with nvCJD in humans. some are even starting to be concerned with sporadic CJD and blood, and there are studies showing transmission there as well. ... this is one month recall page, where 10 MILLION POUNDS OF BANNED MAD COW FEED WENT OUT INTO COMMERCE, TO BE FED OUT. very little of the product that reaches commerce is ever returned via recall, very, very little. this was 2007, TEN YEARS AFTER THE AUGUST 4, 1997, PARTIAL AND VOLUNTARY MAD COW FEED BAN IN THE USA, that was nothing but ink on paper. i have listed the tonnage of mad cow feed that was in ALABAMA in one of the links too, this is where the infamous g-h-BSEalabama case was, a genetic relation matching the new sporadic CJD in the USA. seems this saga just keeps getting better and better.......$$$
10,000,000+ LBS. of PROHIBITED BANNED MAD COW FEED I.E. BLOOD LACED MBM IN COMMERCE USA 2007
Date: March 21, 2007 at 2:27 pm PST
RECALLS AND FIELD CORRECTIONS: VETERINARY MEDICINES -- CLASS II
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PRODUCT
Bulk cattle feed made with recalled Darling's 85% Blood Meal, Flash Dried, Recall # V-024-2007
CODE
Cattle feed delivered between 01/12/2007 and 01/26/2007
RECALLING FIRM/MANUFACTURER
Pfeiffer, Arno, Inc, Greenbush, WI. by conversation on February 5, 2007.
Firm initiated recall is ongoing.
REASON
Blood meal used to make cattle feed was recalled because it was cross- contaminated with prohibited bovine meat and bone meal that had been manufactured on common equipment and labeling did not bear cautionary BSE statement.
VOLUME OF PRODUCT IN COMMERCE
42,090 lbs.
DISTRIBUTION
WI
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PRODUCT
Custom dairy premix products: MNM ALL PURPOSE Pellet, HILLSIDE/CDL Prot- Buffer Meal, LEE, M.-CLOSE UP PX Pellet, HIGH DESERT/ GHC LACT Meal, TATARKA, M CUST PROT Meal, SUNRIDGE/CDL PROTEIN Blend, LOURENZO, K PVM DAIRY Meal, DOUBLE B DAIRY/GHC LAC Mineral, WEST PIONT/GHC CLOSEUP Mineral, WEST POINT/GHC LACT Meal, JENKS, J/COMPASS PROTEIN Meal, COPPINI - 8# SPECIAL DAIRY Mix, GULICK, L-LACT Meal (Bulk), TRIPLE J - PROTEIN/LACTATION, ROCK CREEK/GHC MILK Mineral, BETTENCOURT/GHC S.SIDE MK-MN, BETTENCOURT #1/GHC MILK MINR, V&C DAIRY/GHC LACT Meal, VEENSTRA, F/GHC LACT Meal, SMUTNY, A- BYPASS ML W/SMARTA, Recall # V-025-2007
CODE
The firm does not utilize a code - only shipping documentation with commodity and weights identified.
RECALLING FIRM/MANUFACTURER
Rangen, Inc, Buhl, ID, by letters on February 13 and 14, 2007. Firm initiated recall is complete.
REASON
Products manufactured from bulk feed containing blood meal that was cross contaminated with prohibited meat and bone meal and the labeling did not bear cautionary BSE statement.
VOLUME OF PRODUCT IN COMMERCE
9,997,976 lbs.
DISTRIBUTION
ID and NV
END OF ENFORCEMENT REPORT FOR MARCH 21, 2007
http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/EnforcementReports/2007/ucm120446.htm
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Feed Safety and BSE/Ruminant Feed Ban Support Project (U18)
http://madcowfeed.blogspot.com/2010/09/feed-safety-and-bseruminant-feed-ban.html
Saturday, October 2, 2010
BSE surveillance front and centre: CFIA and USA
http://madcowtesting.blogspot.com/2010/10/bse-surveillance-front-and-centre-cfia.html
SEE where sporadic cjd in the USA went from 59 cases in 1997, to 216 cases in 2009. a steady increase since 1997. ...TSS
Monday, August 9, 2010
National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center Cases Examined (July 31, 2010)
Year Total Referrals2 Prion Disease Sporadic Familial Iatrogenic vCJD
1997 114 68 59 9 0 0
to
2009 425 259 216 43 0 0
http://www.cjdsurveillance.com/pdf/case-table.pdf
PLEASE SEE FULL TEXT HERE ;
Monday, August 9, 2010
National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center Cases Examined (July 31, 2010)
(please watch and listen to the video and the scientist speaking about atypical BSE and sporadic CJD and listen to Professor Aguzzi)
http://prionunitusaupdate2008.blogspot.com/2010/08/national-prion-disease-pathology.html
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy: A new sporadic disease of the prion protein
http://creutzfeldt-jakob-disease.blogspot.com/2010/08/variably-protease-sensitive-prionopathy.html
Monday, August 9, 2010
Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy: A new sporadic disease of the prion protein or just more PRIONBALONEY ?
http://prionunitusaupdate2008.blogspot.com/2010/08/variably-protease-sensitive-prionopathy.html
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
A Novel Human Disease with Abnormal Prion Protein Sensitive to Protease update July 10, 2008 Friday, June 20, 2008
http://cjdmadcowbaseoct2007.blogspot.com/2008/07/novel-human-disease-with-abnormal-prion.html
TSS
