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Vets detect second Czech BSE case in 2007

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Vets detect second Czech BSE case in 2007

By ČTK / Published 21 December 2007
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Usti nad Labem, Dec 20 (CTK) - Czech vets have detected the second case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), so-called mad cow disease, this year in Ustecky region in northern Bohemia, State Veterinary Administration (SVS) spokesman Josef Duben told CTK Thursday.

The 28th Czech BSE case is a nearly 10-year-old dead cow that originally came from Karlovarsky region in the west of Bohemia.

Experts say that foreign meat and bone meal is probably the source of the infection dating back to a time when animals were not examined for BSE and strict veterinary measures were not in force in the country, said Duben.

Quick tests were made in Prague on Wednesday and the sample was sent to the State Veterinary Institute in Jihlava in southern Moravia for confirmation.

Final results should be available in the middle of next week.

Duben said that vets do not expect the result to differ from that in Prague.

The number of cows to be killed should not exceed 30 because the infected cow is so old.

The amount of new BSE cases has been falling in the country thanks to the strict measures, vets have said.

The first BSE-infected cow in the Czech Republic was detected in 2001. SVS then ordered tests on all slaughtered animals older than 30 months. Since the start of 2001 until the end of November this year 1,194,743 heads of cattle had been examined, 27 of them being found positive.

Last year, there were 3 BSE cases confirmed in the country, and 8 cases were detected in 2005, the highest amount.

http://www.praguemonitor.com/en/239/czech_national_news/16333/


USA MAD COW FREE, thanks to GW et al at USDA, and there complete honest and accurate BSE surveillance program :disagree: :liar:


OH, and even if the occational spontaneous theory was correct (and it has never been proven, and is highly unlikely in my opinion, especially in the 85%+ of all CJD i.e. 'sporadic' CJD), it apparently does NOT happen in the USA. WE are blessed with cows that are TSE free. ... :roll:


Monthly Test Results

APHIS reports ongoing surveillance totals monthly.

The BSE ongoing surveillance program will sample approximately 40,000
animals each year. Under the program, USDA will continue to collect samples
from a variety of sites and from the cattle populations where the disease is
most likely to be detected, similar to the enhanced surveillance program
procedures.

BSE Ongoing Surveillance Program Cumulative Total

From Sep 1, 2006: 46,673

Month Number of Tests
Sep 2007
3,832

Aug 2007
5,433

Jul 2007
4,267

Jun 2007
4,106

May 2007
5,217

Apr 2007
5,104

Mar 2007
4,130

Feb 2007
2,937

Jan 2007
3,075

Dec 2006
2,477

Nov 2006
2,235

Oct 2006
2,068

Sep 2006
1,792


snip...end


http://www.aphis.usda.gov/newsroom/hot_issues/bse/surveillance/ongoing_surv_results.shtml


let's see now, from a USA cattle herd of some 95 million head, the expanded
2004 BSE cover-up that suddenly halted after the finding of the 2 BASE cases
i.e. atypical h-BSE documented in Alabama and Texas, this after rendering
another stumbling and staggering mad cow in Texas that was suspect BSE, but
_no_ test at all was given, and after suspect BSE samples sat stored on some
shelf somewhere for months and months, while the OIE BSE MRR was being born,
etc, etc, the USA total figures for BSE testing in this day and time,
regardless of the figures the OIE recommend, is inadequate to say the least. ...



Subject: OIE BSE RECOMMENDATION FOR USA, bought and paid for by your local
cattle dealers i.e. USDA

Date: May 14, 2007 at 9:00 am PST



IN A NUT SHELL ;

(Adopted by the International Committee of the OIE on 23 May 2006)

11. Information published by the OIE is derived from appropriate
declarations made by the
official Veterinary Services of Member Countries. The OIE is not responsible
for inaccurate
publication of country disease status based on inaccurate information or
changes in
epidemiological status or other significant events that were not promptly
reported to the
Central Bureau,

http://www.oie.int/eng/Session2007/RF2006.pdf


BSE BASE MAD COW TESTING TEXAS, USA, AND CANADA, A REVIEW OF SORTS


http://madcowtesting.blogspot.com/


MADCOW USDA the untold story

http://madcowusda.blogspot.com/


CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE MAD COW BASE, CWD, SCRAPIE UPDATE OCT 2007


http://cjdmadcowbaseoct2007.blogspot.com/


SEAC 99th meeting on Friday 14th December 2007

http://seac992007.blogspot.com/



TSS
 

PORKER

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Case Western Reserve gets $27.5 million to keep studying mad cow disease
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Sarah Jane Tribble
Plain Dealer Reporter
A special center at Case

Source of Article: http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1198143191305810.xml&coll=2

Western Reserve University that tracks any suspected cases of prion-related disease - such as the popularly known mad cow disease - has received $27.5 million needed to keep it operating.

The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center now has enough money to continue examining cases of the disease for another five years. The center, which began in 1997, is the only one of its kind in the United States where suspected cases of prion diseases are reported, characterized and tested.

"It's very, very important that surveillance really be maintained in the United States to protect the population," said Pierluigi Gambetti, center director at Case. "It is critical."

The center became a national hot spot when mad cow disease, which is the newest strain of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, hit global headlines several years ago. Hospitals nationwide send suspected cases to Cleveland to be tested. And earlier this year the center was part of an international study that announced a new prion protein that may provide insight into how the brain functions with the disease.

Mad cow disease is the best known of several brain-wasting diseases for humans and animals thought to be associated with malformed proteins called prions. Another disorder in this family includes chronic wasting disease, which has infected Wisconsin deer.

Since 1997, neurologists and pathologists have sent brain tissue and spinal specimens from nearly 3,000 individuals to Case, which confirmed about 1,500 cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Gambetti said.

To date, Gambetti said the center has not found any cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from eating contaminated beef, elk or deer meat in the United States. "But we have to keep looking because otherwise we may indeed miss it," he said.

When the center began it had a $60,000 federal grant, but since then it has received appropriations from Congress and grant funding. The most recent $27.5 million in funding was awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute on Aging, which is an arm of the National Institutes of Health. About 40 percent of the money will be used for research over the next five years.

The remainder will be for surveillance, Gambetti said.
 

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