161. Mad Cows Disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Informs of an simple heart test to find out whether patients have the fatal brainwasting condition, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, known as vCJD. http://www.cgi-installer-software.com/sites/hospitalweb/html/madcowsdisease.htm

Daily Mail, October 12, 2004 By Sarah Sims MAD COWS DISEASE, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Test that can rule out mad cow fears. The world's first test for the human form of mad cow disease has been developed by British scientists and is set to be available to doctors next year. Experts at the Manchester Royal Infirmary have invented a simple, painless heart test which takes just ten minutes to find out whether patients have the fatal brain-wasting condition, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, known as vCJD. The breakthrough could offer peace of mind to 6,000 people in Britain who have been told that they may have contracted the deadly disease through a blood transfusion or receiving blood plasma products. The test would rule out the possibility that they had the disease. Dr Chris Pomfrett has devised the heartbeat test which hospital doctors or GPs can perform to discover if someone has vCJD up to five years before they experience any symptoms. The wireless belt device is strapped around the chest and works by measuring the heartbeat 1,000 times a second for ten minutes, which experts then use to look for the signature pattern of vCJD. Dr Pomfrett says: `In each of the vCJD patients it worked 100 per cent as it picked up the same signature.

162. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy And New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Q And Centers for disease Control and Prevention. CDC Home, Search Health Topics AZ. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and CreutzfeldtJakob disease http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/cjd/bse_cjd_qa.htm

Site Contents BSE and CJD CJD: Infection Control Practices vCJD Fact Sheet BSE and CJD Home The page "Questions and Answers Regarding Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)" has been moved. Please visit the following pages for current information: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Classic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) Prion Diseases ... Health Topics A-Z This page last reviewed June 29, 2005 All information presented in these pages and all items available for download are for public use. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Infectious Diseases Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases US Department of Health and Human Services

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164. Bmj.com Topic Collections : Variant Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease Collected resources from the UK journal, plus links to scientific papers and resources from other journals. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/collection/mad_cow

Home Help Search Archive ... Feedback Topic collections Author Keyword(s) Vol Page [Advanced] variant Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease Citations 1-10 of 74 total displayed. Most recent content (22 Jan 2005): News roundup Only a few more deaths from vCJD likely in UK Susan Mayor BMJ 2005;330:164 , doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7484.164 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] Past content (since Feb 1998): News roundup Patients informed of increased risk of vCJD contact Zosia Kmietowicz BMJ 2004;329:702 , doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7468.702-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] News roundup Government confirms second case of vCJD transmitted by blood transfusion Stephen Pincock BMJ 2004;329:251 , doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7460.251-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] Education and debate Obstacles to conducting epidemiological research in the UK general population Hester J T Ward, Simon N Cousens, Blaire Smith-Bathgate, Margaret Leitch, Dawn Everington, Robert G Will, and Peter G Smith BMJ 2004;329:277-279 , doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7460.277

165. WHO | Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy BSE is one of several different forms of transmissible brain disease affecting a number of WHO Fact Sheet N° 180 on variant CreutzfeldtJakob disease). http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs113/en/

All WHO This site only Home About WHO Countries Health topics ... Contacts Media centre WHO WHO sites Media centre Fact sheets ... printable version Fact Sheet N°113 Revised November 2002 Bovine spongiform encephalopathy Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) is a transmissible, neurodegenerative, fatal brain disease of cattle. The disease has a long incubation period of four to five years, but ultimately is fatal for cattle within weeks to months of its onset. BSE first came to the attention of the scientific community in November 1986 with the appearance in cattle of a newly-recognized form of neurological disease in the United Kingdom (UK). Source of the epidemic Epidemiological studies conducted in the UK suggest that the source of BSE was cattle feed prepared from bovine tissues, such as brain and spinal cord, that was contaminated by the BSE agent. Speculation as to the cause of the appearance of the agent causing the disease has ranged from spontaneous occurrence in cattle, the carcasses of which then entered the cattle food chain, to entry into the cattle food chain from the carcasses of sheep with a similar disease, scrapie. Cause BSE in the brain affects the brain and spinal cord of cattle. Lesions are characterized by sponge-like changes visible with an ordinary microscope.

166. Animal Concerns Community Information and FAQs on the animal rights movement. http://www.animalconcerns.org/

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