Mad Cow Disease Found in One Cow in California

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Mad cow disease — bovine spongiform encephalopathy — has been found in a dairy cow in California, federal officials reported on Tuesday. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the finding "presents no risk to the food supply or to human health."

It's the country's first case of mad cow disease in 6 years. Experts say the cow did not contract the disease through the feed supply, Reuters reports.

http://news.yahoo.com/mad-cow-disease-f ... 31323.html

杜老說:其實,我懷疑這是冰山浮出水面的ㄧ小部分而已.....

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Mad cow disease — bovine spongiform encephalopathy — has been found in a dairy cow in California, federal officials reported on Tuesday. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the finding "presents no risk to the food supply or to human health."

It's the country's first case of mad cow disease in 6 years. Experts say the cow did not contract the disease through the feed supply, Reuters reports.

http://news.yahoo.com/mad-cow-disease-f ... 31323.html

杜老說:其實,我懷疑這是冰山浮出水面的ㄧ小部分而已.....

+1冰山一角...

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原文網址http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health- ... story.html



Of the millions of cows slaughtered each year, the government tests only 40,000 for the disease, said Michael Hansen, a scientist at Consumers Union. “So we really don’t know if this is an isolated unusual event, or whether there are more cases in U.S. beef,” he said. “Our monitoring program is just too small.”

美國消費者聯盟的科學家邁克爾·漢森說，每年屠宰的牛數以百萬計，政府測試的疾病，只有40,000，。“所以，我們真的不知道這是一個孤立的不尋常的事件，或 在美國牛肉中是否有更多的情況， “他說。“我們的監測計劃，真是太小了。”