Zoonotic Infections News

On July 14, 2007, a softball coach from a North Carolina team found an apparently healthy and alert kitten in a barrel-shaped garbage bin located near one of the playing fields in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, where a four-state tournament was held.

Frank O. Bastian, MD, is professor of pathology and director of neuropathology at the University of South Alabama, Mobile. He has published numerous research articles relating to the etiology of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. In 1991, Bastian edited a book entitled Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Other Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Mosby-Year Book). In 1992, Bastian arranged an international symposium on bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), popularly referred to as mad-cow disease.