Possible mad cow disease case in Alberta -CFIA
Posted on: Monday, 10 July 2006, 13:04 CDT
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is testing an Alberta cow for mad cow disease after preliminary tests failed to rule out the disease, the agency said on Monday.
If the 50-month-old dairy cow tests positive for the brain-wasting disease, it will be Canada's seventh case since 2003.
The animal died on a Western Canadian farm and no part of the carcass entered the human food or animal feed supply, the CFIA said.
The cow was identified through a surveillance program for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), known as mad cow disease, the agency said in a statement.
The animal was born after Canada's 1997 feed ban, when the inclusion of protein from ruminants such as cattle and sheep was prohibited from cattle feed. The disease is believed to be spread by contaminated feed.
Source: REUTERS
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