Also Try Farm Animals Pets Lists Avian and Animal Veterinarians (Birds n Ways) Provides information to locate or gain referrals for bird vets or animal veterinarians. Also provides tips on the care of pets. News Cows - Mad Cow Disease Indepth News (CBC News) Provides news and facts related to the spread of Mad Cow Disease or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). 12-03 Cows - Mad Cow Disease News (Centers for Disease Control) Provides news and facts related to the spread of Mad Cow Disease or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). 12-03 Cows - Mad Cow Disease News (Organic Consumers Association) Provides news and facts related to the spread of Mad Cow Disease or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). 12-03 Cows - Mad Cow Disease News (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) Provides news and facts related to the spread of Mad Cow Disease or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). 12-03 Cows - Mad Cow Disease News (Yahoo.com) Provides news related to the spread of Mad Cow Disease or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). 12-03 Cows - USDA Bans "Downer" Cows for Meat (USAToday.com) "Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman Tuesday announced a list of new restrictions to further enhance the safety of the American beef supply, including a meatpacking ban on the use of sick 'downer' cattle like the one discovered last week with mad cow disease." 12-03 Papers Care for Pets Provides tips for selecting and caring for a pet. 11-02 Cows - Mad Cow Disease (Russell Knightley Media) Provides illustrations of prions, which are implcated in BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or Mad Cow Disease) and its human counterpart nvCJD (new variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease). 12-03 Cows - Mad Cow Disease Questions (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) Provides facts about Mad Cow Disease or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). "BSE is a disease that affects cattle. However, there is a disease similar to BSE called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), or vCJD, which is found in humans. There have been a small number of cases of vCJD reported, primarily in the United Kingdom, occurring in people who consumed beef that may have been contaminated. (As of May 2003, there have been a total of approximately 139 cases of vCJD worldwide.) There is strong scientific evidence (epidemiological and laboratory) that the agent that causes BSE in cattle is the agent that causes vCJD in people." 12-03 Cows - Mad Cow Disease and Globalization (OrionOnline.org) "The recent foot-and-mouth and mad cow scares should serve as a wake-up call to the challenges of a borderless world." 1-04 Cows - Mad Cow Disease and New Variant CJD (Centers for Disease Control) Provides facts related to the spread of Mad Cow Disease or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). "New variant CJD (vCJD) is a rare, degenerative, fatal brain disorder." "Although experience with this new disease is limited, evidence to date indicates that there has never been a case transmitted from person to person." "As of December 1, 2003, a total of 153 cases of vCJD had been reported in the world: 143 from the United Kingdom, six from France, and one each from Canada, Ireland, Italy, and the United States (note: the U.S. case was reported in a patient who lived in the United Kingdom before moving to the United States)." "Almost all the 153 vCJD patients had multiple-year exposures in the United Kingdom between 1980 and 1996 during the occurrence of a large UK outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, commonly known as mad cow disease) among cattle." "There has never been a case of vCJD that did not have a history of exposure within a country where this cattle disease, BSE, was occurring." "It is believed that the persons who have developed vCJD became infected through their consumption of cattle products contaminated with the agent of BSE. There is no known treatment of vCJD and it is invariably fatal." 12-03 Cows - Mad Cow Disease and New Variant CJD (Centers for Disease Control) Provides facts related to the spread, diagnosis, and prevention of new variant CJD. "Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rapidly progressive, invariably fatal neurodegenerative disorder believed to be caused by an abnormal isoform of a cellular glycoprotein known as the prion protein. CJD occurs worldwide and the estimated annual incidence in many countries, including the United States, has been reported to be about one case per million population." "The vast majority of CJD patients usually die within 1 year of illness onset. CJD is classified as a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) along with other prion diseases that occur in humans and animals." "Physicians suspect a diagnosis of CJD on the basis of the typical signs and symptoms and progression of the disease. In most CJD patients, the presence of 14-3-3 protein in the cerebrospinal fluid and/or a typical electroencephalogram (EEG) pattern, both of which are believed to be diagnostic for CJD, have been reported. However, a confirmatory diagnosis of CJD requires neuropathologic and/or immunodiagnostic testing of brain tissue obtained either at biopsy or autopsy." 12-03 Exotic Pets (Planet-Pets.com) Provides descriptions, pictures, and suggestions for the care and feeding of Chinchillas, Ferrets, Frogs, Gerbils, Goats, Guinea Pigs, Hamsters, Hedgehogs, Llamas, Prairie Dogs, Rats, Snakes, Sugar Gliders, Tarantulas, and Zebus. 8-00 Pet Articles (Cyber-Pet) Provides information on the care of pets. SARS Linked to Animal Virus (USAToday.com) "The virus that infects humans with SARS is slightly different from one found in wild animals sold in China for food, but close enough to suggest the disease jumped from animals to humans and could do so again, researchers say." 9-03 Skinks (Planet-Pets.com) Provides a description and pictures of the blue-tongued skink. Provides suggestions for the care of the reptile as a pet. It has a prehensile tail and is very expensive. 8-00 Squirrels - Care and Feeding of Infants (Rowe) Provides an article on care and feeding of infant squirrels and explains why they are not pets.

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