June 12, 2014                     Mad Cow News

"4,000 pounds of rib-eyes, other beef recalled; mad cow disease a concern." LINK

 
Six members of Congress are urging federal agricultural officials to ban the interstate movement of captive deer, saying a national industry that breeds bucks to be shot as trophies in "canned" hunts isn't worth the disease risks.  [for chronic wasting disease] LINK

Confirmed variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) case in Texas LINK