CANADIAN mad cow case an uncommon strain - (Reuters)
April 16, 2008 – 11:03 pmVancouver, British Columbia — The Canadian Food Inspection Agency was cited as saying on Wednesdaythat a cow discovered late last year with bovine spongiform encephalopathy was suffering from an atypical strain of the fatal illness.
Officials were cited as saying the nearly 14-year-old Hereford likely contracted mad cow disease from feed early in its life, since it was born before 1997 when Canada imposed a ban in on mixing protein from rendered cattle or other ruminants in feed.
The cow lived its entire life on the Alberta farm where it was born and no part of the animal ever entered the human or animal food supply. It was Canada’s 11th home-grown case of BSE since 2003.
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