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May 27, 2005

A Mad Cow On The Loose

I didn't know about this case of Mad Cow Disease in the U.S.:

The USDA has recently been accused of been covering up cases of mad cow disease for over a decade. Now a deceased California man’s family and doctor have announced they believe Patrick Hicks, aged 49, died late last year from variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, or vCJD. The fatal disease is contracted from eating beef contaminated with mad cow disease. Dr. Ron Bailey, a neurologist at Riverside Medical Center, believes this will be the first documented case of vCJD in the U.S., and in order to bypass the hand of the USDA, is sending brain samples...

 

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A Mad Cow on the Loose

Posted on May 27, 2005 08:45 AM by mad co282.
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