BBC In Depth: BSE and CJD - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/bse_and_cjd/
Ongoing collection of news articles, reports, forums, audio and video. From BBC News. UK. |
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - http://bse.airtime.co.uk/
Collection of information, data and reports concerning this disease in the UK. |
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - Public Inquiry and Response - http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/
Report of the Public Inquiry to establish and review the history of BSE and new variant CJD in the United Kingdom and the United States response to BSE. Opened 9 March 1998. |
British Medical Journal: variant Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease - http://bmj.com/cgi/collection/mad_cow
Collected resources from the UK journal, plus links to scientific papers and resources from other journals. |
DEFRA: BSE - http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/bse/index.html
Official site is divided into the subject areas of public health, eradication, the beef industry, Europe, science, statistics and publications in connection with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). From the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). |
Guardian Special Reports: The BSE crisis - http://www.guardian.co.uk/bse/0,8250,388290,00.html
Ongoing collection of news, commentary, audio, graphics and interactive guides about Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD). |
Scotsman: Scientists discover sheep can get BSE. No need to panic, they say. Should we? - http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/health/Scientists-discover-sheep-can-get.2379157.jp
A sheep of a type thought to be resistant to BSE has developed a similar type of infection. Elliot Morley, the minister for animal health, moved swiftly to downplay fears. He said that the infected sheep was the only one to develop a disease from a group of 19 which had been subjected to a "massive and unnatural" injection of BSE-infected material directly into their brains. |
Slate: Crazy Cows - http://cagle.msnbc.com/news/madcow/main.asp
Collection of editorial cartoons on the subject of mad cow disease (BSE). |
The UK Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit - http://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk/
Summarizes the research in progress at the CJD unit and also provides background information about CJD and other human spongiform encephalopathies. |