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Second American Mad Cow Case – Texas Herd Source?

Cow infected by Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) that destroys brain tissue (on right) with a myriad of holes that resemble a sponge. Photographs courtesy www.mad-cow.org.  
Cow infected by Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) that destroys brain tissue (on right) with a myriad of holes that resemble a sponge. Photographs courtesy www.mad-cow.org.

 June 27, 2005  Washington, D. C. – The U. S. Department of Agriculture confirmed on June 25, 2005, that the second U. S. cow in 18 months has tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, also known as Mad Cow disease. The first case of Mad Cow found in the U.S. was in December 2003 in a Washington state dairy cow that had been imported from Canada.This 2005 infected cow was at least 8 years-old and rumors in the cattle industry are that the animal was born and raised in Texas. If so, this would be the first confirmation that the always fatal BSE prion disease that destroys brains and nervous systems is in some American cattle and not solely linked to imported animals, as once previously thought.

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Updated: More Than 3,000 Unusual Animal Deaths Reported in Argentina and Chile Since 2002

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Specialists from Argentina's federal INTA agency (similar to USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service) are inspecting a mutilated cow in the La Pampa province in late June 2002. More than 100 mutilated cows and horses were reported to local authorities in seven provinces between April and June 2002. Image © 2002 by Rio Negro Online, Argentina.
Specialists from Argentina's federal INTA agency (similar to USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service) are inspecting a mutilated cow in the La Pampa province in late June 2002. More than 100 mutilated cows and horses were reported to local authorities in seven provinces between April and June 2002. Image © 2002 by Rio Negro Online, Argentina.
Map in which yellow indicates towns in provinces of La Pampa, Buenos Aires and Rio Negro where mutilations have occurred, especially La Pampa. Not shown on the map are other affected provinces further north: Entre Rios, Santa Fe and Chaco. Reported mutilation count since April 2002 is 2,150.
Map in which yellow indicates towns in provinces of La Pampa, Buenos Aires and Rio Negro where mutilations have occurred, especially La Pampa. Not shown on the map are other affected provinces further north: Entre Rios, Santa Fe and Chaco. Reported mutilation count since April 2002 is 2,150.
Typical La Pampa Province, Argentina, cow mutilation.
Typical La Pampa Province, Argentina, cow mutilation.

Updated June 23, 2005   Bradford, Pennsylvania - The number of unusual large animal deaths since 2002 in Argentina and Chile keeps climbing. I talked with Scott Corrales, Editor and Translator of Inexplicata, the Journal of Spanish Ufology, based in Bradford, Pennsylvania. Scott received his M. A. in Spanish Literature from Rutgers University. Scott's website, Inexplicata, provides Spanish-to-English translations about UFO-related incidents in Mexico, Central and South America.

 

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“Junk DNA” That’s Not Junk

“This event in the vertebrates that created the ultra conserved elements in the birth of the vertebrate lineages was a unique event. …It cannot be a coincidence that there have been so few changes in these (vertebrate 481 ‘junk DNA’) elements over this enormous span of half a billion years. It’s got to be that they are functionally important.”

– David Haussler, Ph.D., UC-Santa Cruz

June 25, 2005   Santa Cruz, California – A biomolecular engineer at the University of California in Santa Cruz was published in a recent Science journal stating his lab has found 481 genetic sequences that are the same in all vertebrates from humans to rats and are so important they have not changed in nearly half a billion years. But until now, those genes were considered “junk DNA.”Click for report.

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A Harmless Virus Kills Cancer Cells

June 24, 2005   Hershey, Pennsylvania - A scientist at Penn State College of Medicine in Pennsylvania announced at a recent meeting of the American Society for Virology that his lab has killed cancer cells with a virus called "adeno-associated virus type 2," or AAV-2.

The AAV-2 virus has killed a variety of cancer cells in Petrie dishes investigated by Dr. Craig Meyers, Prof. of Microbiology and Immunology at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania. This cancer-killing virus infects 80% of the human population. If the AAV-2 virus is so prevalent, why isn't it killing cancers all the time in people? I asked Dr. Meyers what activates the virus to kill cancer cells in his laboratory?

 

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Mars Express Orbiter Finally Turns On Deep Ground-Penetrating Radar

Mars Express Orbiter with MARSIS radar antennae unfurled in orbit around Mars. Illustration by ESA.
Mars Express Orbiter with MARSIS radar antennae unfurled in orbit around Mars. Illustration by ESA.

June 23, 2005   Darmstadt, Germany - I learned something amazing today from the Mars Express Orbiter Spacecraft Operations Manager. He is Michel Denis based at the European Space Agency's office in Darmstadt, Germany. I was getting an update about the plans for the deep ground-penetrating radar on ESA's Mars Express Orbiter which was turned on for the first time at 3 p.m. Pacific. The amazing fact I learned was that a month ago on May 7th, the Mars Express Orbiter and NASA's two spacecraft, the Odyssey and the Mars Global Surveyor ­ could have collided!

 

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Vietnamese Doctor Studying H5N1 Bird Flu Falls Victim to Virus

June 21, 2005   Hanoi, Vietnam - This week the Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper in Hanoi reported that a medical doctor who has been taking samples from people diagnosed with the dangerous H5N1 virus, or bird flu, is now sick with the virus himself. The male doctor is in the hospital and his condition is reported as "stable." Since the H5N1 virus jumped from animals to humans in late 2003, thirty-eight Vietnamese patients have died. 

 

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CDC Reports First 2005 Human Case of West Nile Virus in Kansas

"In a CDC study to be published next month in July 2005, an estimated 10% of Americans who develop the most severe form of West Nile disease will have polio-like paralysis. Many patients are in their 30s to 50s. The growing paralysis problems are of great concern, as well as the death toll. Since 1999, CDC has counted more than 16,600 human cases and 654 deaths." - 060205 Earthfiles

Top: Photomicrograph of West Nile Fever Virus. Bottom: Photograph of Culex pipiens female mosquito, carrier of West Nile Fever Virus, courtesy Entomology Image Gallery.
Top: Photomicrograph of West Nile Fever Virus. Bottom: Photograph of Culex pipiens female mosquito, carrier of West Nile Fever Virus, courtesy Entomology Image Gallery.

     June 21, 2005   Atlanta, Georgia - The Centers for Disease Control issued the following press release this week:

 

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Part 14: UFO Crash/Retrievals: Status Report III – Amassing The Evidence

"It is quite legitimate to assume that on other planets dinosaurs lived on to with the high intelligence necessary for interplanetary travel."

- Dale Russell, Ph.D., National Museum of Natural History, Ottawa, Canada.  

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To be more computer-friendly, the reprint has been divided into parts. Here begins Part 14 of Status Report III, written in June 1982. The series of  status reports, I through VII, were written by Leonard H. Stringfield from 1978 to 1994. Previous Status Report IV begins at Earthfiles 021205. Leonard Stringfield died on December 18, 1994.

Leonard H. Stringfield:

THE OMNIPRESENT I.I.I.

"Always present in my work is the I.I.I., or less cryptically, the 'Invisible Inside Informant.' New ones surface from time to time as old ones fade away. Sometimes on my wish, like a storybook genie, they respond with supposedly 'inside' UFO information ostensibly to help my cause in research. Usually, known by only a first name or as in one case, just as 'Uncle,' their backgrounds as UFO savants vary. Some allegedly serve, or have served, in the Intelligence community. One is a medical doctor and some are too shifty to be pinned down. The I.I.I. are always polite, are not always readily reachable and are evasive when I ask for a one-to-one meeting. As to their motives, I can only guess. Maybe some are just tired of secrecy and genuinely want to help. But others I can see as plants who are a part of a plan to either spoon feed information as a test of public reaction or are to set up a disinformation trap. In the end of the spectrum is the KGB who is interested in the progress of a duplication of a saucer-like craft by the U. S. military.

 

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Unusual Cow Death in Paradise Hill, Alberta, Canada


June 17, 2005   Paradise Hill, Saskatchewan, Canada – Rancher Ray Riguidel, 68, was born and raised in Saint Walburg, Saskatchewan, Canada, northwest of Saskatoon. The past thirty-five years he has run cattle on pastures in both Saint Walburg and nearby Paradise Hill. Nothing strange had ever happened to his animals until he discovered one of his 10-year-old cows dead and mutilated on Friday evening, June 10, 2005. She had been alive and well, nursing her 2-month-old calf, only three days before.Click for report.

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Part 13: UFO Crash/Retrievals: Status Report III – Amassing The Evidence

“…Wilbert Smith (Canadian engineer) was provided, for research purposes, a fragment allegedly obtained from an alien craft which had been shot off by USAF interceptors near Washington, D. C., in July 1952.”

-Arthur Bray, author of The UFO Connection

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To be more computer-friendly, the reprint has been divided into parts. Here begins Part 13 of Status Report III, written in June 1982. The series of status reports, I through VII, were written by Leonard H. Stringfield from 1978 to 1994. Previous Status Report IV begins at Earthfiles 021205. Leonard Stringfield died on December 18, 1994. Click for report.