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Yeah, vet school has been taking up most of my time (obviously) but I couldn't resist coming back here. 

Anyway, here's the deal-io. What do you guys know about mad cow disease? You know, where the cows get crazy and eat the other cows. I sat for a while and thought: them zombie cows O_O

I just want a few opinions.

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ok what did i just read??? o.O wowww ok ex wives and such... hey, dont use her as a scapegoat! that's morally wrong and unsettling. let her get eaten ad libitum. more humane that way. aaaaanyway, i'm lost right now. help me out.

lol. how can i help you? lol.

I am with you Confused...LOL!

now neither one of you cant say that you have not entertained the thought of using an ex for walker bait at some point or another. come on now. be honest here. lol.

geez i feel like I've been away for a million years. are you guys still alive? have the zombies gotten you yet?

nah. just laying low until your return. lol.

WELKOME BACK!

this is cool. where is this sold at?

lolz cute :3 been working on a farm and such, kinda losing the free time i have little by little.

Mad Cow Disease Facts 2020

vCJD Statistics (Humans)


(source: CDC)


Since 1996, 231 vCJD cases have been identified in 12 countries:

United Kingdom - 178
France - 27
Spain - 5
Ireland - 4
United States - 4
Italy - 3
The Netherlands - 3
Portugal - 2
Canada - 2
Japan - 1
Saudi Arabia - 1
Taiwan - 1

Timeline


1986 - Mad cow disease is first discovered in the United Kingdom. From 1986 through 2001, a British outbreak affects about 180,000 cattle and devastates farming communities.


January 1993 - The BSE epidemic in Britain reaches its peak with almost 1,000 new cases being reported per week.


1996 - The first case of vCJD is reported.


1996-1999 - The European Union bans British beef. France continues the ban for an additional three years.
May 20, 2003 - Canada's first case of mad cow disease is confirmed in an 8-year-old cow in Alberta. Canadian officials say the cow did not enter the food chain.


May 21, 2003 - Mexico, Japan and South Korea join the United States in temporarily banning Canadian beef.
December 23, 2003 - The US Department of Agriculture confirms the first case of mad cow disease in the United States. The infected cow is discovered on a farm in Washington State in early December. Japan, China and South Korea stop the importation of US beef. The infected cow was born in Canada, in April 1997 - just four months before the United States and Canada began banning the use of brain and spinal cord tissue in cattle feed.


January 9, 2004 - The USDA says it will begin destroying about 130 cattle that were "herd mates" of the cow that tested positive for the first-ever US case of mad cow disease.


January 26, 2004 - New safeguards against mad cow disease are announced by the Food and Drug Administration. They include banning chicken waste from cattle feed and barring restaurant meat scraps from being used in animal feed.


January 28, 2004 - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission launches an investigation into whether some commodity futures market players may have known about the first US case of mad cow disease before it was announced to the public.


June 20, 2004 - Charlene Singh, the first person known to live in the United States with vCJD, dies.


January 2, 2005 - Canadian health authorities confirm that test results have identified a 10-year-old dairy cow in Alberta as having mad cow disease. This is Canada's second case of BSE in two years.


June 24, 2005 - The second US case of BSE is confirmed.


March 13, 2006 - The third US case of BSE is confirmed after an Alabama cow tests positive.


September 5, 2008 - Canadian scientists announce a discovery that paves the way for diagnostic testing of live cattle, rather than postmortem.


September 13, 2008 - An Alabama research study shows that mad cow disease can sometimes be caused by genetic mutations.


March 10, 2009 - An anti-malaria drug known as quinacrine, which had reportedly shown promise against mad cow disease, is found to have no effect on the disease, according to a British medical study.


March 14, 2009 - The US government permanently bans the slaughter of cows too sick or weak to stand on their own, seeking to further minimize the contraction of mad cow disease.


April 24, 2012 - The USDA confirms the fourth case of BSE, found in a dairy cow from central California. The announcement maintains that the cow was never presented for slaughter for human consumption and poses no risk.


March 2014 - After 15 years, the United States lifts the ban on beef from the European Union, pending inspections.


June 11, 2014 - The USDA announces a recall of 4,000 pounds of beef; a spokesperson cites "an abundance of caution." The meat comes out of the Fruitland American Meat processing plant in Jackson, Missouri.

March 24, 2016 - France confirms the first case of BSE since 2011.


October 18, 2018 - Scotland confirms an "isolated case" of mad cow disease has been discovered on a farm in Aberdeen.

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