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Bulls Sold in Montana Linked to Mad Cow

 

By MATT GOURAS

..c The Associated Press

 

HELENA, Mont. (AP) - A cow found to have mad cow disease in Canada once

belonged to the same herd as five bulls shipped to Montana six years ago, but

it's

highly unlikely any became infected, health officials said.

 

State authorities said Wednesday that the five bulls had since been

slaughtered, but it was not known what happened to the carcasses.

 

None of the animals ever showed signs of the disease, said Karen Cooper,

spokeswoman for the Montana Department of Livestock.

 

Ron DeHaven, a spokesman for the U.S. Agriculture Department's Animal and

Plant Health Inspection Service, also played down fears, noting negative tests

so

far on other animals linked to the infected cow.

 

The slaughter would have occurred after the Food and Drug Administration had

banned the use of animal parts in livestock feed. Given that fact, DeHaven

said it is unlikely the meat would have been fed to other cattle.

 

He added that the chance of someone getting the human form of the disease

from the five bulls is ``immeasurably small.''

 

Two weeks ago, Canadian officials disclosed that a cow in Alberta had been

identified as having the disease. The United States immediately banned all

imports of Canadian beef and cattle.

 

Canada has since ordered the slaughter of more than 1,700 cattle in its

effort to determine the disease's source. So far, 800 animals have tested

negative,

including animals that had been in the same herd as the infected cow.

 

Canadian authorities said Wednesday some of the bulls from Alberta apparently

were subsequently resold in South Dakota and Montana.

 

Mad cow disease was first diagnosed in Britain in 1986. The human form is the

fatal brain-wasting illness variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Scientists

believe people get it by eating some meat products from infected animals.

 

 

 

06/05/03 04:58 EDT

 

 

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