Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Here we go again
Government Investigating Possible Case of Mad Cow By Libby Quaid Associated Press Writer-Published: Jul 27, 2005
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government is investigating a possible new case of mad cow disease but says there is no threat to the U.S. food supply...Maybe vegetarians have the right idea.
...The animal died in April, but the veterinarian who removed the brain forgot to send in the sample until last week, Clifford said...
...The brain-wasting disease is known medically as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE. In people, eating meat products contaminated with BSE is linked to about 150 deaths from a fatal disorder called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Most of the deaths were in the United Kingdom, where there was an outbreak in the 1980s and 1990s...
