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(51) vegsource.com, January 12, 2004, U.S. Version of "Mad Cow" Known to Authorities Since 1960's.

(52) http://www.mad-cow.org/~tom/Dateline.html#Mystery
Mystery of CWD explained?, Listserve Opinion 15 March 1997.

(53) Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber. 1997. Mad Cow U.S.A. Could the Nightmare Happen Here?

(54) John Collinge, et al., “Molecular Analysis of Prion Strain Variation and the Aetiology of ‘New Variant’ CJD,” nature, no. 383 (Oct. 24, 1996) p. 685.

(55) http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/Faculty/Fink/88A/2003/CJD.htm. Information on CJD and vCJD.

(56) Vegsource.com, November 29, 2002.

(57) Lee, H.-S. et al. Increased susceptibility to kuru of carriers of the PRNP 129 methionine/methionine genotype. Journal of Infectious Diseases 183, 192 - 196 (2001).

(58) The threat to humans from BSE, Special report: BSE, Thursday October 26, 2000

(59) Beatrice Trum Hunter, “What is Fed to Our Food Animals?” Consumers Research, Dec. 1996, pp. 13-14.

(60) Richard F. Marsh, “Comments on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy,” Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, v. 197, no. 4 (Aug. 15, 1990), p. 441.

(61) Richard Lacey, Unfit for Human Consumption (Souvenir Press: 1991). Quoted in Peter Cox, The New Why You Don’t Need Meat (London, U.K.: Bloomsbury, 1992), p. 46.

(62) Richard W. Lacey, Mad Cow Disease: The History of BSE in Britain (England: Gypsela Publications, 1994), p. 85.

(63) Nicholas Schoon, “Cat Had Illness Similar to ‘Mad Cow’ Disease. Vets Say,” Independent (London), May 11, 1990, p. 3.

(64) Robert Wright, “Scientist Casts Doubt on Effectiveness of Mass Cull,” The Scotsman, 3/28/96, p. 2.

(65) R.F. Marsh, et al., “Epidemiological and Experimental Studies on a New Incident of Transmissible Mink Encephalopathy,” Journal of General virology (1991), 72, p. 592.

(66) McNair, op.cit.

(67) BSE in U.S Cattle -- Scientific Papers of R.F. Marsh Robinson, M. M.; Hadlow, W. J.; Huff, T. P.; Wells, G. A. H.; Dawson, M.; Marsh, R. F.; Gorham, J. R. Experimental infection of mink with bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Journal of General Virology 1994 75 9 2151-2155.

(68) “Substances Prohibited from Use in Animal Food or Feed; Specified Offal from Adult Sheep and Goats Prohibited in Ruminant Feed; Scrapie” (proposed rule), Food and Drug Administration, Aug. 29, 1994, pp. 6-7.

(69) Peter Martin, “The Mad Cow Deceit,” Mail on Sunday/Night & Day Magazine, May 12, 1996.

(70) Steve Connor and Michael Prescott, “BSE: A Scandal of Dither and Delay,” Times (London), Mar. 24, 1996.

(71) “Declarations to the Standing Veterinary Committee meeting of October 9-10, 1990” Memorandum of the Department for Consumer Policy, Commission of the European communities, Oct. 12, 1990, published in Le Journal du Dimanche, June 30, 1996.

(72) Corinne Lasmezas,et al., “BSE Transmission to Macaques,” Nature, no. 381 (June 27, 1996), pp. 743-744.

(73) John Collinge, et al., “Molecular analysis of Prion Strain Variation and the Aetiology of ‘New Variant’ CJD,” Nature, no. 383 (Oct. 24, 1996), p. 685.

(74) John Collinge, “The Bottom Line: Can BSE Infect Humans?” at the International symposium on Spongiform Encephalopathies, Georgetown Univ., Feb. 12-13, 1996.

(75)“BSE Surveillance: Total U.S. Brain Submissions by State Through April 30, 1997” (chart on APHIS website).

(76) “Debate: Is BSE Endemic?” at the International Symposium on Spongiform Encephalopathies, Georgetown Univ., Feb. 12-13, 1996.

the presence of a mutation does not necessarily lead to CJDv (55).

(77) Masuo Doi, N. Davit Matzner and Charles Rothaug, “Observation of CNS Disease in Market Hogs at Est. 893—Tobin Packing Co., Inc., Albany, NY,” USDA, Food Quality and Inspection Service, Meat and Poultry Inspection Service, 1979.

(78) A.R. Bobowick, et al., “Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: A Case-Control Study,” American Journal of Epidemiology, 98 (1979): pp. 381-394.

(79) Z. Davanipour, et al., “A Case-Control Study of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease,” American Journal of Epidemiology, 122 (1989), pp. 433-451.

(80) Hansen interview.

(81) www.mad-cow.org Dioxin from beef incineration. 17 Dec 2000 Henrik Holst-Pedersen.

(82) Successful Farming Agriculture Online: December 30, 2003. We still have miles to go, By Betsy Freese, Livestock Editor, Successful Farming magazine.

(84) Tuesday, December 30, 2003, Wall Street Journal, U.S. Estimates Mad-Cow Exposure at 81 Tara Parker-Pope.

(85) Vincent Zigas, Laughing Death: The Untold Story of Kuru (Clifton, NJ: The Humana Press, 1990).

(86) Judith Farquhar and D. Carleton Gajdusek, eds., Kuru: Early Letters and Field-Notes from the Collection of D. Carleton Gajdusek (New York: Raven Press, 1981), p.2.

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