Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (B.S.E.): Mad Cow Disease
Federal Government
- USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) Newsroom: BSE Information and Resources
- This is the USDA bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) web site that has department press releases, videos and transcripts, a chronology of BSE, and additional background information.
- FSIS - Food Safety and Inspection Service: BSE Resources
- Includes latest news, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) Risk Assessment results, BSE information and resources, and historical information. It also has a helpful FAQ page.
- FAS - Foreign Agricultural Service: BSE
- Provides information on the effect of BSE on international trade..
- FDA - U. S. Food and Drug Administration
- Includes a general background of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) with FAQ's and FDA action plans, consumer information, Industry and Veterinarian information, Bovine-based vaccines, blood safety, and recent actions.
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- There is also coverage from the CDC on the related disease in humans, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). Each page contains an overview, facts, treatment, prevention, control measures, links to additional resources, and more.
- MEDLINEplus
- Very current information from the National Institutes of Health, MEDLINEplus covers Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and including news, general overviews, research, specific Conditions and aspects, organizations, statistics and many links.
- NINDS - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- The NINDS has a general Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies information page that covers many related diseases like BSE, CJD, Chronic-wasting Disease, and others.
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National Organizations
- BSEinfo.Org
- Links to sites providing updates on BSE. This site is funded in part by America's Beef Producers through the Beef Checkoff Program.
- United States Meat Export Federation
- Current news about meat trade, including BSE issues whenever they are relevant.
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Texas Government
- Texas Department of State Health Services
- Information on Texas cases of Creutzfeld-Jakob disease. Last updated in September, 2007.
- Texas Animal Health Commission
- Links to TAHC press releases and other broader links.
- Texas Parks and Wildlife CWD page
- This page produced by Texas Parks and Wildlife contains information about "chronic wasting disease" in deer and elk and provides several links. Last updated in 2003.
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State Organizations
- Texas Cattle Feeders Association
- Links to current updates and BSE test results for Texas.
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Foreign Governments
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- Links to Canadian government sites on bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), reports, and links for further information.
- European Union: BSE/Scrapie Introduction
- Information on bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), inspections, impact on trade, and control.
- United Kingdom - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
- This is the United Kingdom's main bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) site and includes links to the beef industry, eradication of BSE, publications, public health, science, and statistics.
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International Organizations
- World Health Organization
- Includes information on contains the impact of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), surveillance and control, information dissemination and other resources.
- World Organization for Animal Health
- The World Organization for Animal health works to provide the safety of food of animal origin and to promote animal welfare through a science-based approach. In addition to their bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) page, they also have this link to Reported cases of BSE around the world 1989-2006.
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Research Databases
- Science Direct (Accessible off-campus by WTAMU students, staff, and faculty only)
- Science Direct has broad science coverage, with particular emphasis on life sciences, engineering, earth sciences and pharmacology. Over 1800 full-text journals. For this database you will need to search under both "bovine spongiform encephalopathy" and "mad cow" for more complete searching.
- PubMed
- Use PubMed to find articles about bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), you can type in "Mad Cow Disease" and it will search under those terms and automatically search under BSE also.
- AGRICOLA
- Agriculture database providing citations for various topics in journals, books, theses, dissertations, etc. For this database you will need to search under both "bovine spongiform encephalopathy" and "mad cow" for more complete searching.
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