However, Mr. Gray said, in the interim the Department of Agriculture will be monitoring developments as it relates to reports of Mad Cow disease being found in an infected cow in Washington State. The disease is also known as “bovine spongiform encephalopathy.”
The brian-wasting disease can be contracted by humans if they eat infected beef or nerve tissue and possibly through blood transfusions. The human form of mad cow disease has killed 143 people in Britain and 10 elsewhere – but none in the US as yet.
Source: Darnell Dorsett, The Tribune
