Canada Confirms New Case of Mad Cow Disease

[norml]

Canada Confirms New Case of Mad Cow Disease

By IAN AUSTEN
Published: January 24, 2006


OTTAWA, Jan. 23 - Canada's beef industry, still reeling from a ban on shipments to the United States that was only recently lifted, faced new worries on Monday after government officials confirmed that a cow in Alberta had tested positive for mad cow disease.

The announcement by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency signifies the fourth case of mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, discovered in Canadian cattle since May 2003. In addition, one of the two known cases of mad cow disease in the United States involved a Canadian cow.

"This case, of course, is unwelcome, but it's not unexpected," Brian Evans, the inspection agency's chief veterinary officer, said at a news conference in Edmonton, Alberta. "We have always maintained that we could find a small number of additional cases through our active surveillance program."

Dr. Evans said that the discovery posed no danger to human health and added that it should not affect cattle shipments to the United States, which partly resumed in July.


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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/24/international/americas/24cow.html

[Posteritatis]

1. Damn, I thought this was about the election. (n/t)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

3. That's what I thought, too.

Sounds like a good excuse...

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Calling Stephen Harper names won't help . . . .

[Posteritatis]

10. Feels good, though. ;)

[whoneedstickets]

2. That's one explanation for all that Alliance support in Alberta...

Mad Cow(boy)...

I guess their brains are like swiss cheese about now.

[davidinalameda]

4. I did too but then I realized it was in LBN

and not the lounge

:bounce:

[HuffleClaw]

5. at least they don't go and COVER it up like they do in bushland.

it shows the system is working. i wonder if this one is an american cow like that last one was.

[warrens]

7. They don't cover it up in Bushland

They just use a subjective test whose results can be read several ways, let the lab know which way they want it read, then refuse to perform the definitive test to make sure on the grounds that it would be "junk science" to make sure. The only reason we know about the last U.S. case is that Fong, the Inspector General, actually seized the brain samples and forced the USDA lab to run the Western blot test.

[OKthatsIT]

8. The USDA isnt even in the Office...playing golf in the Bahamas, I hear.

No complaints/investigations have been followed up for 6 yrs.

This is a big cover up...has been for over 10 yrs, by the beef industry.

[Odin2005]

9. Harper's a Mad Cow?

:evilgrin:

[area51]

11. Babs Bush is in Canada?

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