News stories and updates

Aug 13 2004	Press release -- New milk research finds infectious bacteria survives pasteurization
Aug 6 2003	Action Research Confirms MAP-Crohn's Link
June 2003	Major Website Update.  This update is so extensive, we would encourage revisiting the entire site.
Oct 24 2002	PARA's efforts benefit Crohn's sufferers - NIH allocates $1.8 million to study infectious cause of Crohn's
Oct 23  2002	PARA AGAIN Urges USAHA to Take Action on MAP-Crohn's Disease!
July 20 2002	CDC Dispatch -- German researchers warn HIV-positive individuals that inadequately pasteurized milk could cause Crohn's
July 28 2002	Update to Phase III clinical trial of anti-paratuberculosis antibiotic therapy underway in Australia
April 27 2002	Study confirms that Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis survives standard pasteurization
Dec 5 2001	UK Government adopts comprehensive strategy for eliminating MAP from milk
June 20 2001	From London Daily Mail -- UK takes a firm stand against MAP-contaminated milk as Food Standards Agency demands dairy industry rid milk of suspect Crohn's bug
June 18 2001	UK Food Standards Agency releases comprehensive report: Review of the evidence linking MAP with Crohn's disease
June 17 2001	From the Des Moines Register -- Link found between human and animal diseases -- article by George Anthan, Register Washington Bureau. References: press release and paper by CAST (Council for Agricultural Science and Technology).
May 30 2001	From MSNBC, Madison, Wisconsin: Farmers worry about disease of milk cows
May 31 2001	A flaw in the monolith of wholesome milk? -- article by Lance Gay
May 29 2001	Dairy interests seek help in reducing animal disease -- article by Lance Gay
May 26 2001	A vaccine for Crohn's? The research has begun. For a more detailed explanation of the proposed vaccine, see Work on Crohn's Disease Vaccine Underway in England.
May 26 2001	Dairy magazine voices industry fear: "Are Johne's and Crohn's connected?"
May 26 2001	Milk-cow disease concerns farmers -- An illness in dairy cows prompted scientists to study a possible link to Crohn's disease. NOTE: This article is available from the Orlando Sentinel archives for a charge.
May 14 2001	PARA TELLS CONGRESS: Find out what dairy industry is hiding with NMPF's "Proposed National Voluntary Johne's Management, Testing, Research and Indemnity Program for Dairy Cattle"
May 11 2001	Dairy industry seeks $1.3 billion to kill diseased cows -- article by Lance Gay
April 9 2001	ABC NEWS.com report on possible link between milk and Crohn's -- "Cow Conundrum -- Could Microbe in Dairy Cattle Be Found in Milk?"
April 9 2001	Canadian paper runs three stories about Crohn's, Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis and milk. See PARA News Release
March 13 2001	PARA testifies before U.S. Congress. See PARA news release and report.
March 07 2001	Suspect Crohn's bug found in breast milk. See News Release.
Feb 21 2001	Government agencies avoid responsibility. See PARA's paper trail.
Feb 13 2001	UK -- Centre for Ecology and Hydrology research will learn if runoff from cow pastures is contaminating drinking water supplies with suspect Crohn's bug
Dec 6 2000	U.S. Animal Health Association kills milk, beef testing resolutions -- again. See our PARA news section for more information.
Nov 22 2000	Report on National Johne's Working Group (NJWG) at the U.S. Animal Health Association (USAHA) annual meeting, oct 2000. See our PARA news section for more information.
Nov 20 2000	Public meeting of Food Standards Agency's Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food (ACMSF) is scheduled for 5 December 2000. Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis, milk safety, and Johne's Disease are on the agenda. See Agenda for more information.
Oct 30 2000	Western dairy producers introduce Johne's Disease control proposal -- but crucial human health issues missing from plan. See our media/PARA news for more information.
Sept 29 2000	Ireland bans milk, meat from cows infected with suspected Crohn's bug. Food Safety Authority of Ireland press release and report. See our media/PARA news for more information.
Sept 29 2000	AGENCY PLANS ACTION ON MILK BUG. The Food Standards Agency is to hold a conference of science and industry experts to look at ways to stop a bacterium in milk, which could be linked to Crohn's Disease, from entering the human food chain. Recent research commissioned by the Agency has shown that Mycobacterium paratuberculosis (MAP) can survive pasteurisation. And some scientists believe there is a possible, but so far unproven, link between MAP in the food chain and Crohn's Disease in humans. See our media/PARA news for more information.
Sept 18 2000	Los Angeles Times prints two Crohn's articles by respected medical writer Thomas H. Maugh II: One reports on the controversy over the issue of that "sacrosanct" beverage, milk, being the means for transmission of an infectious organism, Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) that may cause Crohn's disease in humans. The other article describes the successes of medical treatment for Crohn's disease using medications active against MAP. While other nations' media have been reporting on these issues extensively in the past, and an in-depth article entitled The Crohn's Connection had appeared in the alternative U.S. press, the LA Times is the first of U.S. mainstream media to break these stories. See our media/PARA news for more information.
Sept 11 2000	UK Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food (ACMSF) of the Food Safety Agency will hold their thirty eighth meeting on the Microbiological Safety of Food at 10.30am on 19 sep 2000 in Room 125A Skipton House, 80 London Road, Elephant and Castle, London SE1. On the agenda are progress reports on MAP research and Crohn's disease.  See our media/PARA news for more information.
August 14 2000	Live MAP bacteria found in retail pasteurized milk supply. An interim report from UK Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food MAFF on test results from retail pasteurized milk samples taken from a variety of sources. See our media/PARA news for more information.
August 6 2000	MAP linked to intestinal disease, found in milk. Report in the Sunday Times. "As much as 10% of milk sold in Britain may be contaminated with a form of tuberculosis bacterium, which can survive the pasteurization process." See our media/PARA news for more information.
April 2 2000	BBC Television program "CountryFile" reports "...a dangerous bacteria called MAP is getting into the milk that we drink, despite serious attempts to stop it by farmers and the dairy industry." See our media/PARA news for more information.
April 2 2000	BBC Television Program "On the Record." An interview with UK Agriculture Minister Nick Brown regarding "...a report from Queen's University in Belfast, amongst other places, about Crohn's disease and the bacterium that causes it, which is apparently found in 3 out of every 100 bottles of milk." See our media/PARA news for more information.
July 4 2000	Paratuberculosis and Crohn's disease -- voted as one of top 25 censored news stories of 1999. See our media/PARA news for more information.
June 19 2000	The House of Lords debates Crohn's disease, in particular discussing what actions the government should take, based upon recent research into contamination of retail milk with MAP, to "stop the spread of Crohn's disease". See our Governments/UK section  for more information, or read the complete text of the debate.
June 14 2000	The European Commission calls for "increased and urgent research activity to resolve the issue [of Crohn's disease and Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis]. See our research section for more information.
June 7 2000	The world-renowned Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) formulates plan of action to deal with the relationship between infection and Crohn's disease! For more information, please read Centers for Disease Control: Potential Infectious Etiologies of Crohn's Disease.
May 28 2000	PARA spends a week on Capitol Hill. To see how it went, Read this Report from Karen Meyer and Cheryl Miller.
May 26 2000	Added link to new article about the Dairy Industry and Bovine Johne's Disease. See our media/PARA news for more information.
March 2000	PARA announces its March To Congress, the intention of which is to obtain funding to carry out the Research Agenda of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Feb 2000	PARA announces the formation of its Medical Advisory Council and of its Scientific Advisory Council.