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By Mark Babineck GALVESTON, Texas (Reuters) - Katrina drove them from Louisiana. Now Rita is hounding them out of their Texas refuges. Many victims of Hurricane Katrina, which smashed into New Orleans and nearby cities three weeks ago, were scattered across southern Texas. Now Hurricane Rita, gaining strength as it crosses the Gulf of Mexico, is forcing them to take shelter elsewhere. "If definitely feels like they're chasing us everywhere," said Stephen Travis, who fled with his...

GALVESTON, Texas -- Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) have found a way to detect in blood the malformed proteins that cause "mad cow disease," the first time such "prions" have been detected biochemically in blood. The discovery, reported in an article scheduled to appear online in Nature Medicine Aug. 28, is expected to lead to a much more effective detection method for the infectious proteins responsible for brain-destroying...