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...Sheep Department of Agriculture officials seized flocks of sheep from two Vermont farmers to test for a version of bse, or "mad cow" disease. The sheep, some of which were imported from Belgium and the Netherlands in 1996, tested positive in July for transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (tse), a class of neurological illness that includes scrapie and bse. Officials said they would take the sheep to Iowa to be tested and killed...
...mail from Paula, dated three minutes later:] I now have a cow sitting on my left shoulder. Really...
...They still couldn't sleep after counting the first flock b) Sheep may have mad-cow disease c) Horses too heavy d) They had extra mint jelly...
BART SIMPSON Cartoon boy may have sex in future film. Don't have a cow--it's still on the drawing board...
...Department of Agriculture is not taking any chances that Europe's mad-cow disease will get a hoofhold here. This week the USDA will destroy 360 Vermont sheep, even though the agency does not know for sure that the animals have the disease--and may not know for two years. The sheep were imported from Europe in 1996. In 1998 the USDA placed them in quarantine after learning they may have consumed contaminated feed. Last July four of the animals developed transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, a class of diseases that includes mad cow. Within days, the USDA issued an emergency order...