DEFRA: BSE - 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).
Food Standards Agency: BSE - Offers news stories, statistics, online leaflets and other information about the disease plus the final report of the BSE controls review, including a summary of the main points and recommendations.
Guardian Special Reports: The BSE crisis - Ongoing collection of news, commentary, audio, graphics and interactive guides about Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD).
Slate: Crazy Cows - Collection of editorial cartoons on the subject of mad cow disease (BSE).
The UK Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit - Summarizes the research in progress at the CJD unit and also provides background information about CJD and other human spongiform encephalopathies.
Scotsman: Scientists discover sheep can get BSE. No need to panic, they say. Should we? - 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. (November 19, 2002)
