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...Cattle Crisis "How Now, Mad Cow?" described the discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in a dairy cow in the U.S. [Jan. 12]. Mad-cow disease? They should call it mad-human disease! Only we humans would make a cannibal out of a vegetarian animal by feeding it contaminated meat-and-bone meal, exposing it to a horrible nervous disorder and then be mainly concerned with our inability to eat it. Which species, I ask, is mad? Lakshmi Jackman Austin...
...could this be the year of mad cow? The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) banned Canadian beef in May after mad-cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), turned up in a single calf there. Now it is America's turn. More than 30 countries have banned U.S. beef imports since BSE was detected in a slaughtered 6-year-old dairy cow in Washington State on Dec. 23. Though officials say the cow entered from Canada in 2001, the USDA last week instituted a series of measures to reassure consumers that American beef is safe, including...
...panic over bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as "mad cow" disease, spread all the way to Japan last year, where a handful of cases caused beef sales to plummet. The good news was that researchers using a mathematical model estimated that the brain-wasting BSE variant in humans may max out at 100 cases per year in Britain, ground zero for mad cow, and kill no more than a few thousand people in the coming decade. Feel any better...
...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...
...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 to acquire the animals. But the owners went to court, claiming, correctly, that the USDA could not distinguish between mad cow and scrapie, a threat to sheep but not humans. A federal appeals court...