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8th Case of Mad Cow in Canada Recently Confirmed.Thursday, August 24, 2006Rueters Canada Marcy Nicholson Read the full article: http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-08-24T203359Z_01_N24267095_RTRIDST_0_CANADA-MADCOW-CANADA-INVESTIGATION-COL.XML&archived=False The victim was a mature cow in Alberta intended for use as meat. The agency said on Thursday that the seventh confirmed victim most likely contracted the disease from contaminated feed. The 50-month-old cow was born years after 1997, when Canada instituted a ban on protein from cattle and other ruminants in cattle feed. Used for milk production, she was the youngest animal in Canada to test positive for the disease since the first native-born case was discovered in 2003. The CFIA also recently concluded its investigation into Canada's sixth confirmed case, a Manitoba cow, but was unable to determine the animal's birth farm. She was born prior to the feed ban, having been at least 16 years old at the time of her death. The agency announced in June that it aims to eliminate B.S.E. within the next 10 years by banning specific cattle tissues capable of transmitting mad cow disease from all farmed and companion animal feed. |