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Continuing Concerns

West Nile Fever

• Year 2001: U.S. Geological Survey
• Revised Guidelines for Surveillance April 2001
• Year 2000 - US Case Summary
• Year 2000 West Nile Virus Maps
• FAS-AHEAD Bird Infection Report November 2000
• West Nile Fever–a Reemerging Mosquito-Borne Viral Disease in Europe
• West Nile Virus Strain 1999

"Mad Cow" Disease

• Prions Discovered in Mouse Muscle Tissue - Prusiner Research
• Prion Detection in Urine -Israeli Research
• UN Food and Agriculture Organization Warning and Precautions January 2001
• US Department of Agriculture Harvard Risk Analysis and Other Information
• UK Inquiry Report - Final Results of Government Investigation October 2000(book length)
• No Species Barrier for Prion - Latest Research
• OIE Report on BSE Cases Worldwide
• Mad Cows, Englishmen and the Prion Hypothesis
• Stanley Prusiner - Nobel Laureate 1997
  • Profile
  • The Nobel Lecture
• UK HSE Adds TSE "Viruses" to Biological Agents List
• Latest Update on BSE from the UK and Editorial Footnotes since January 1999
• Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy - 1997 Electronic Conference

Pfiesteria

• "The Cell from Hell"
• Where It All Began -- North Carolina State University
• Environmental Protection Agency Consumer Advisories
• Chesapeake Bay Program
• Water Quality Information Center, USDA

Frogs As Barometers in Emerging Diseases

• CAUSE OF DEFORMITIES FOUND? - April 2002
• UPDATE - 29 October 2001
• Latest News on Minnesota's Deformed Frogs
• Investigating Australian Amphibian Diseases