Mad Cow Disease Hits Home

By Staff
Published on April 1, 2004
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Cattle continue to be at risk or contracting mad cow disease from feed because high-protein bovine blood is used in the ""milk replacer"" routinely fed to dairy calves, and sometimes to beef-breed calves, too.

Fifteen years after Great Britain began destroying 3.7
million cattle because of an epidemic of mad cow disease,
the first U.S. case of mad cow was confirmed in December in
Washington state. The infected cow already had been
slaughtered, and its meat dispersed into the human food

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