Re: OT Mad Cow disease
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- Subject: Re: OT Mad Cow disease
- From: T*
- Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 16:06:40 -0500
On 2/27/00 3:17 PM Tony & Moira Ryan (theryans@xtra.co.nz) said:
>It hasn't gone away I don't think,though herds have been cleansed as far
>as possible and unsafe practices such as putting possibly diseased
>wastes into cattle feed discontinued. As far as I know though, British
>beef still remains unpopular and suspect. I gather the farmers are quite
>a bit to blame for their own troubles, as some resisted the regulations
>originally and deliberately concealed cases, which probably allowed it
>to spread farther than it otherwise might have done.
>
>New Zealand, by careful quarantine has so far entirely escaped either
>Mad Cow or Scrapie (the related disease of sheep) thank goodness.
I've heard that US blood banks don't want your blood if you've spent 6
months in the UK in the last 10 years.
Tom Miller
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