Canadians Confirm a New Case of Mad Cow Disease

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Canadians Confirm a New Case of Mad Cow Disease

January 12, 2005
 By CLIFFORD KRAUSS

TORONTO, Jan. 11 - Canadian officials said Tuesday that
they had found a new case of mad cow disease, a report made
more worrisome because the cow was born after feed
restrictions intended to prevent the spread of the disease
were put in place in 1997.

It was the second infected cow from the western province of
Alberta found in the two weeks since the Bush
administration announced that it would soon allow imports
of young Canadian cattle, for the first time since the
initial case was found in May 2003. But in the other recent
case, the cow was nearly 8 years old, born before the feed
restrictions. 

The new case is likely to strengthen a legal challenge to
the administration's decision, which as of March 7 would
allow the import of cows under the age of 30 months as well
as of an expanded variety of beef. The challenge, filed
Monday by a group of Montana ranchers, said the import of
Canadian livestock would endanger public health and
American cattle. 

...

No human consumers of Canadian beef on either side of the
border are known to have been infected by the spread of the
brain-wasting disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
But the outbreak has cost the Canadian cattle industry $4
billion and more than 6,000 jobs, and it has caused
hardship in many small communities in the prairie
provinces. 

...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/12/international/americas/12canada.html


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