How Will the Bushies Keep Us Safe from Mad Cow Disease? They'll Cut Testing, That's How
Unbleepingbelievable when we now HAVE a confirmed case of mad cow and we already test just a teensy fraction:
Despite the confirmation of a third case of mad cow disease in the U.S., the American government intends to scale back testing for the brain-wasting disorder blamed for the deaths of more than 150 people in Europe.And I had to go to Canada to read this. In fact, I now increasingly have to go beyond this country's borders to find real news about this country.
The U.S. Agriculture Department boosted its surveillance after finding the first case of mad cow disease in the U.S. in 2003.
About 1,000 tests are run daily, up from about 55 daily in 2003.
The testing program detected an infected cow in Alabama last week and further analysis confirmed Monday the animal had mad cow disease.
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