TSE in wild and captive animals

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Subj: TSE in wild and captive animals

Date: 5/6/99 5:29:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time

From: tom@... (tom)

Sender: BSE-L@... (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy)

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I pulled out all the older stories concerning TSE in wild and captive

animals. There were 74 in total. Each is given a hot link at the central

location below. Sometimes there is value in looking retrospectively at how

issues were presented in the past.

tom

http://www.mad-cow.org/may99_zoo_news.html#mmm

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD):

06 May 99 -- Mad deer, mad elk: CWD summary, links

19 Mar 98 --14 facilities where CWD has been found, 3 zoos and 5 research

centers named

Leaky feed bans (tiny subsample):

11 Mar 98 -- Vet's reference to scrapie was cut from speech

14 Jul 96 -- Details of EU cover-up memo

09 Feb 98 -- MAFF lied all along

10 Dec 97 -- Black market in T-bone steaks and oxtail to flourish

05 Jan 98 -- Farmers to defy ban with a feast of oxtail

23 Jul 96 -- Sheep, goat, deer offal finally banned

28 Jul 96 -- Massive beef storage fraud exposed

08 Jul 96 -- Horror at birth of BSE

08 Jan 98 -- US ranchers ignore mad cow rules

01 Aug 97 -- Origins of BSE: rendered meat from Africa?

21 Oct 96 -- Out of Africa: new theory for BSE origins

Zoo, captive, and wild animals:

15 Dec 97 -- Bad news on BSE fed to primates

26 Jun 96 -- French prove BSE llnk to primates

15 Jul 95 -- Prion protein gene variation among primates

12 Nov 96 -- Ape colony needed for study on BSE effects

29 Nov 97 -- More cheetahs dead in France

02 July 96 -- Felid update

07 Jul 96 -- Cow to primate situation worsens

26 Oct 98 -- Taiwanese eat raw brain from living endangered macaques

01 Sep 97 -- Zoo animal victims so far

02 Jul 96 -- BSE transmitted to other animals

04 Apr 98 -- Thousands of animals to be infected in BSE experiment

30 Sep 97 -- Neurological disorder, unknown, ibex and chamois

30 Oct 97 -- Scrapie outbreak in bighorn sheep rumored; scabies instead

18 Aug 98 -- Repeat region deletions in other species

01 Dec 96 -- R.F.Marsh: collected TME papers

09 Jun 97 -- Wisconsin researcher helped corral mad cow disease

Scrapie and BSE transmission issues:

17 Jun 96 -- Is Scrapie transmittable to humans?

14 Mar 97 -- Scrapie in sheep embryos

10 Jul 97 -- BSE horizontal transmission likely

28 Mar 98 -- French vache folle of 1883: more work needed

01 Mar 98 -- Reported scrapie in US: 1,117 cases (1947-1992)

Cats and dogs:

01 Oct 98 -- Man and his cat in CJD mystery

02 Oct 98 -- Same strain of CJD kills man and his pet cat

03 Oct 98 -- CJD in a man and pet cat

23 Sept 97 -- Cat prion sequences in conflict: alignment

17 July 97 -- So where is the 1991 dog study or the cat prion sequence?

19 Oct 96 -- 72 house cats down from BSE

01 Jul 96 -- Spongiform encephalopathies of cattle, sheep and cats in Hungary

30 Nov 98 -- MAFF Goes to the Dogs ... a Play in Three Acts

30 Nov 98 -- BSE fibrils found in 19 hunting dogs

07 Aug 98 -- North Carolina dogs end up in dog food

29 Apr 97 -- Report on BSE in dogs suppressed

26 Apr 97 -- Tests on labrador could prove BSE has spread to dogs

13 Nov 96 -- Has transmission to dogs ever been tested?

27 Nov 98 -- Dog prion anomaly confirmed

23 Sep 97 -- Lots of UK dogs with TSE?

18 Oct 96 -- Cat food fears

04 Dec 97 -- Doubts about pet food

23 Oct 97 -- Housecats rendered to pet food may recycle BSE

16 Oct 96 -- BSE fear for millions of British pets

17 Oct 96 -- Owners of pets seek BSE answers

Pigs and chickens:

06 Apr 96 -- NIH expert: pigs and chickens risky

20 Jan 98 -- Pig-to-human transplant ban urged

13 Nov 98 -- Pig feed rules may ban use of animal remains

17 Dec 97 - Pig, chicken feedback loop closed

08 Jun 97 -- This mad pig went to market

11 Sep 97 -- Government urged to allow pig transplants

30 Oct 97 -- World needs cross-species transplants?

17 Jul 97 -- Dutch slaughter 5 million diseased pigs

08 Jun 97 -- Trade-offs on pig brain transplants to humans

06 May 97 -- FDA: OK to still sell TSE-positive material

24 Mar 97 -- The case for mad pigs in the US; USDA response 1, 2

08 Jun 97 -- BSE may have spread to chickens

05 Oct 97 -- Physicians want chicken manure out of cattle feed

Squirrels:

30 Aug 97 -- Squirrel brains and CJD in Kentucky

15 Aug 97 -- Squirrels: a natural reservoir for TSEs?

05 Aug 97 -- Baby squirrels dying from tremors

19 Aug 96 -- Squirrel brains and CJD

Salmon:

01 Mar 97 -- Mad migrating salmon?

06 Dec 96 -- Germans shift panic on British food to salmon

29 Nov 96 -- Fish-meal is banned from cattle feed