Fourth case of BSE in U.S. confirmed in California dairy cow
The U.S. government has confirmed the first case of “mad cow disease” in six years, but is stressing that there is no threat to human health and no danger of the meat entering the food chain.
The cow had been picked up by a facility near Fresno, Calif., that takes dead livestock, reports MSNBC. Results of a random test on April 18 at the lab of the University of California, Davis showed positive results for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). On Tuesday, federal agriculture officials announced the findings: the animal had atypical BSE. That means it didn't get the disease from eating infected cattle feed, said John Clifford, the Agriculture Department's chief veterinary officer.