Q: What exactly is mad cow disease? A: That's the popular name for what scientists call bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE. It is an incurable disease that creates holes in brain tissue, making ...
A slaughterhouse worker who claims to have killed the first U.S. cow to test positive for mad cow disease said the animal wasn't a so-called "downer" cow, an assertion disputed by federal agriculture ...
A single misdiagnosis alerted the world to the federal government's troubles in dealing with mad cow disease. But the U.S. Department of Agriculture's problems extend far beyond the lab. Its efforts ...
WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats on Thursday asked Agriculture Secretary nominee Mike Johanns (search) to reconsider the Bush administration's decision last week to open U.S. borders to Canadian cattle ...
WASHINGTON, May 14 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture has failed to answer questions Japanese authorities have posed about mad cow disease safeguards, an official told UPI. The lack of ...
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