Possible New Case of Mad Cow Disease Found - NYT 11/18/04

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Another possible case of Mad Cow disease found. Also here is a mad

cow link

 

http://madtoeatmeat.com/?c=125

 

It's really odd that this article does not say where this happened. The

placeline just says "Washington." I take it that means the state of

Washington on the west coast and not Washington DC.

 

The other thing that is odd is that this article appeared on the New

York Times website about half an hour ago, but when I just checked it

again, the article was gone. Not sure what's up with that.

 

ys

 

hkdd

 

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Possible New Case of Mad Cow Disease Found

 

November 18, 2004

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

 

 

 

Filed at 10:10 a.m. ET

 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A second case of mad cow disease may

have turned up in the United States, Agriculture Department

officials said Thursday.

 

 

The officials released few details, saying it would be four

to seven days before the possible case could be confirmed.

 

 

Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy,

attacks an animal's nervous system. People who eat food

contaminated with BSE can contract a rare disease that is

nearly always fatal, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

 

 

The possible case comes 11 months after the United States

had its first case of mad cow disease. Japan and other

countries are still maintaining bans against U.S. beef as

the result of the earlier case.

 

 

Suspicions about another case of the disease came because

of an inconclusive test result, officials said.

 

 

``The inconclusive result does not mean we have found

another case of BSE in this country,'' said Andrea Morgan,

associate deputy administrator of the USDA's Animal and

Plant Health Inspection Service.

 

 

She said the inconclusive results ``are a normal component

of screening tests, which are designed to be extremely

sensitive so they will detect any sample that could

possibly be positive.''

 

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Mad-Cow.html?ex=1101791867&ei=1&en=

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