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When a Canadian cow recently tested positive for Mad Cow Disease, meat producers began quarantining and testing their beef. Now the FDA has announced that part of the affected cow may have been used to make dog food that was shipped to the U.S.

There’s no scientific evidence that dogs can Mad Cow or transmit it to humans. However, deer and elk do get a form of the disease, and do transmit it to humans who eat the meat of diseased animals.
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Three major earthquakes struck in a single day on Monday, May 23. While one or two such quakes in a single day is not an unsual event, this level of seismic activity is relatively rare and certainly worth reporting.

However, the the USGS failed to record, or chose not to report, one of these quakes. It was recorded near Mindanao at 23:13:29 GMT.

We have confirmed with news media in the Philippines that the quake did occur, and have found a single record of it, at the University of Washington’s Earthquake Watch. To see this record, click here.

Is this merely an error, or censorship of event because it was unusual? In either case, USGS would appear to be obligated under its rules to correct this error and post this quake.
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The West has blockaded North Korea for a long time, trying to get them not to build nuclear weapons, so how have they survived? A North Korean official who defected in 1998 says they’ve been able to keep going by producing and selling heroin. The defector, who was hidden from view when he testified, told Congress the late North Korean leader Kim Il Sung ordered the effort to begin “in earnest” in the late 1980s. He says, “Kim Il Sung told the people to earn hard currency by selling heroin and selling opium because he needed cash.”
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Scientists have finally traced the animal host from which the SARS virus mutated and jumped to human beings: the civet cat. At first it was thought that SARS originated with birds, as most flu viruses have recently. Virus samples from civet cats are very similar to the virus that causes SARS in humans. “It is highly likely that the virus jumped across,” says microbiologist Kwok-Yung Yuen.

“If these findings are true, then this is a significant breakthrough,” says Peter Cordingley of the World Health Organization (WHO). “First of all, it confirms the theory that the virus has crossed the species barrier. Secondly, it will help scientists work on an effective diagnostic test.”
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