Mad cow scare &#39;bad news&#39;
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WASHINGTON -- Attempts to lift the American ban on Canadian cattle could face a major setback with news yesterday US officials may have discovered a second case of mad cow disease.
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The US Department of Agriculture yesterday said it is testing a suspect animal for mad cow disease and would know within a week whether it has discovered the second case in the United States.
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Here&#39;s a news item on the discovery of a possible second case of mad cow disease in US cattle herds. If you find this article interesting, be sure to also read &#39;Hidden mad cow epidemic infected 300,000 cattle, says French government.
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UNITED STATES WASHINGTON -- One day after the US Agriculture Department announced that concern over mad cow disease should no longer keep the border closed to live cattle from Canada, the Ottawa government revealed yesterday that it has detected another suspected case of the disease in a dairy cow. Canadian officials said that two preliminary tests on the 10-year-old Alberta ...
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Description: The government says a preliminary test suggests that another animal in the US could have mad cow disease. The US Department of Agriculture called the test result inconclusive, and has sent a sample from the animal for confirmatory testing.
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The United States likely has another case of mad cow disease after an animal tested "inconclusive" in two preliminary tests, but a false positive was also possible, experts said on Thursday.
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UK scientists are upwardly revising their estimates of the number of people likely to die from new variant CJD (vCJD, also known as mad cow disease). It follows the death of a second patient, who contracted the disease after a ...
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Thousands of people who received plasma or other blood products in Britain received letters from the government today warning that they may have been exposed to the deadly human form of mad cow disease.
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AMES, Iowa -- The US Department of Agriculture lab in Ames is looking into a possible case of mad cow disease in the United States.
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Britain's livestock owners received more bad news Monday: Another herd of cattle tested positive for foot-and-mouth disease, and a second cow was found to have bluetongue disease.
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A second case of mad cow disease may have turned up in the United States, Agriculture Department officials said Thursday.
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OTTAWA - Canada has exceeded its target for mad cow testing this year, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says. All tests have come back negative for the brain-wasting disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the agency says.
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Canada confirmed a new case of mad cow disease on Tuesday, its 11th since 2003, and said the animal in question was a 13-year-old beef cow from Alberta born before a feed ban designed to prevent the disease.
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A possible new case of mad cow disease may have been discovered in the United States, according to a statement released by the US Department of Agriculture on Thursday.
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Canada&#39;s Food Inspection Agency said multiple screening tests indicate a 10-year-old dairy cow may have mad cow disease. Today&#39;s announcement comes a day after the US said it would lift a ban on cattle imports from Canada in March.
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As the government awaits definitive results in a possible second case of mad cow disease, federal officials are charting new ground in dealing with a jittery public.
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HUNDREDS of patients of Addenbrooke&#39;s Hospital have been warned they may have come into contact with the human form of &quot;mad cow disease&quot;.