BSE causing public alarm

From nannyism to public disclosure: the BSE inquiry report.

BSE uncertainties drag on

A recent mix-up in studies on brain tissue of animals has set back Britain's efforts to determine human exposure to the BSE agent through contaminated meat products. Nigel Williams reports.

High-dose hydroxocobalamin for vasoplegic syndrome causing false blood leak alarm

Blood leak alarms are important safety features in a hemodialysis machine to protect patients from loss of blood through a rupture in the dialyzer membrane (true alarms). A false blood leak alarm can be triggered by air bubbles or detector malfunction (such as deposits of grease or scale). Hydroxocobalamin is an injectable form of vitamin B12 approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for ...

Bse and Cjd Update

An earlier POST report1 described what was known of the origin of BSE in cattle, and the basis for concern that ‘new variant’ forms of a human transmissible spongiform encaphalopathy (TSE) Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD) had a BSE origin. A second report reviewed mathematical models which had helped understand the spread of BSE in cattle and predict what would happen to the future course of the...

Chasing the BSE agent

The UK and its anxious neighbours are currently focusing on foot and mouth disease but agricultural researchers are still working on a much deeper and worrying problem: BSE and its human form, new variant CJD. Unlike foot and mouth disease, much remains unknown about the aberrant prion protein agent of BSE and how it causes disease. One of the biggest stumbling blocks to research is the lack of...