date:Jul 20, 2017
The USDA announced on Tuesday, July 18, 201 that an eleven year old cow in Alabama has been diagnosed with an atypical case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease. The press release states that This animal never entered slaughter channels and at no time presented a risk to the food supply, or to human health in the United States.
The animal was showing clinical signs of the disease and was round through routine surveillance at an Alabama livestock market. Atypical BSE is