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CANADA REPORTS SEVENTH POSSIBLE BSE CASE

This would be the second case involing a younger cow

The National Grain & Feed Association (NGFA) reports the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has announced it is investigating another potential case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) -- this one involving an approximately 4-year-old (50-month) dairy cow in Alberta Province. If confirmed, this would be the seventh Canadian case of BSE (not counting the Canadian-born cow diagnosed in Washington state in 2003). And it would be the second born well AFTER Canada implemented its BSE-prevention feed regulations in 1997.
CFIA said preliminary screening of the suspect cow could not rule out BSE, so confirmatory testing is underway at the National Reference Laboratory in Winnipeg.


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