Guest guest Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 (Scary stuff. I believe during/after the last outbreak, ground beef consumption actually went up (fastfood and whatnot). Consumers are playing with fire, imho. S.) Possible New Case Of Mad Cow Disease Found, U.S. Officials Say WASHINGTON (AP) -- A second case of mad cow disease may have turned up in the United States but the suspected animal had not entered the food chain, Agriculture Department officials said Thursday. The officials released few details and refused to say where the possibly diseased animal was found. They said it would be four to seven days before more could be confirmed, a delay that livestock industry representatives said would cause turmoil in the beef market. Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, attacks an animal's nervous system. People who eat food contaminated with BSE can contract a rare disease that is nearly always fatal, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The possible case comes 11 months after the United States had its first case of mad cow disease. Japan and other countries are still maintaining bans against U.S. beef as the result of the earlier case. Suspicions about another case of the disease came because of an inconclusive test result, officials said. " The inconclusive result does not mean we have found another case of BSE in this country, " said Andrea Morgan, associate deputy administrator of the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. She said the inconclusive results " are a normal component of screening tests, which are designed to be extremely sensitive so they will detect any sample that could possibly be positive. " " It is important to note that this animal did not enter the food or feed chain, " Morgan said. " USDA remains confident in the safety of the U.S. beef supply. Our ban on specified risk materials from the human food chain provides the protection to public health, should another case of BSE ever be detected in the United States. " http://tinyurl.com/6pl2g (remainder of the article can be found at the above link.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 , " matrixenos " <matrixenos@h...> wrote: > > (Scary stuff. I believe during/after the last outbreak, ground beef > consumption actually went up (fastfood and whatnot). Consumers are > playing with fire, imho. S.) > > Possible New Case Of Mad Cow Disease Found, U.S. Officials Say > > WASHINGTON (AP) -- A second case of mad cow disease may have turned up > in the United States but the suspected animal had not entered the food > chain, Agriculture Department officials said > Thursday. > > The officials released few details and refused to say where the > possibly diseased animal was found. They said it would be four to > seven days before more could be confirmed, a delay that livestock > industry representatives said would cause turmoil in the beef market. > > Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, attacks an > animal's nervous system. People who eat food contaminated with BSE > can contract a rare disease that is nearly always fatal, variant > Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. > > The possible case comes 11 months after the United States had its > first case of mad cow disease. Japan and other countries are still > maintaining bans against U.S. beef as the result of the earlier case. > > Suspicions about another case of the disease came because of an > inconclusive test result, officials said. " The inconclusive result > does not mean we have found another case of BSE in this country, " said > Andrea Morgan, associate deputy administrator of the USDA's Animal and > Plant Health Inspection Service. > > She said the inconclusive results " are a normal component of screening > tests, which are designed to be extremely sensitive so they will > detect any sample that could possibly be positive. " > > " It is important to note that this animal did not enter the food or > feed chain, " Morgan said. " USDA remains confident in the safety of the > U.S. beef supply. Our ban on specified risk materials from the human > food chain provides the protection to public health, should another > case of BSE ever be detected in the United States. " > > http://tinyurl.com/6pl2g > > (remainder of the article can be found at the above link.) This would not even be a problem if people did not eat cows. Perhaps this is nature's lesson to mankind telling people that they were not meant to eat animals. Thankfully I don't have to worry about the mad- cow diesease affecting me. Being vegan deffinatly has positive affects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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