AR-News: (US) How Now, Mad Cow?

[Animalconcerns]

Just before Christmas, U.S. consumers and the country's $38 billion beef
industry got a glimpse of the damage caused by mad cow disease, the
brain-destroying ailment that has afflicted cattle around the world over
the past decade -- and has killed a handful of humans, too. Since the case
of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was discovered in Washington
State on Dec. 23, dozens of countries have banned the import of U.S. beef,
resulting in depressed cattle prices and the loss of hundreds of beef
processing jobs -- even though not one person in the U.S. has yet been
diagnosed with the human form of the disease, which can take 10 years or
more to appear.

full story:
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2004/nf20040114_2848_db016.htm

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