I can hardly believe that in all these years that BSE has been around, and the number of cattle in the USA, it has only had 4 cases (one of which was imported from Canada). Wow.
Are they just so much better than us in their animal husbandry proceedures or do the farmers just hide it better (shoot the cow and then bury it in the back 40 and don't tell anybody)?
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Through February 2011, BSE surveillance has identified 22 cases in North America: 3 BSE cases in the U.S. and 19 in Canada. Of the 3 cases identified in the United States, one was born in Canada; of the 19 cases identified in Canada, one was imported from the United Kingdom
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http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/bse/