Mad Cop Disease, er, Cow Disease Returns; Reuters: Top vet rushes to soothe mad cow fears

Peter Reuter

The Lisbon Reporter

At a time when Lisbon's Top Cop can't even find thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars, ($32,500) of public funds, missing, misplaced, misused, or stolen from Lisbon's Economic & Community Development Office perhaps we should let some 'bovine spongiform encephalopathy' detectives work on the case.  They seem to be able to track a disease from one continent to the other and in fact can locate the damned stall where it was 'conceived' all in the name of protecting the people.

MAD COW DISEASE or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)

Fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle. Symptoms include behavioral changes (e.g., agitation), gradual loss of coordination and locomotive function, and, in advanced stages, weight loss, fine muscular contractions, and abnormal gait. Brain tissue becomes pitted with holes and spongy. Death usually follows within a year. The disease is similar to the neurodegenerative disease of sheep called scrapie. No treatment is known. A BSE epidemic in Britain that began in the mid-1980s is believed to have been caused by the use of cattle feed containing supplements made from ruminant carcasses and trimmings. Hundreds of thousands of infected cattle were slaughtered and the use of animal-derived protein supplements ended. The cause of both BSE and scrapie is attributed to an infectious aberrant protein called a prion. The unusual occurrence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, another prion-related illness, in young people beginning in the mid-1990s may be linked to eating meat from cattle with BSE.

Baaad News 'Sheeple' these attributes can be directly associated to OUR so called politicians that we entrust with our safety.

Top vet rushes to soothe mad cow fears

By Roberta Rampton | Reuters

  Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Mad Cow Disease Found in U.S. Cow (ABC News)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hours after confirming to reporters that the United States had found its fourth-ever case of mad cow disease, John Clifford was ready to answer the world's questions about the safety of U.S. beef.

Clifford, the government's chief veterinary officer at the agriculture department, had quickly called his counterparts in Mexico and Canada, the first and second-largest buyers of U.S. beef, to tell them about a California cow found to have an "atypical" type of the brain-wasting disease.

Having taken up his post in May 2004, just six months after the first U.S. case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy was discovered, he knows that sharing information quickly during the next 24 hours -- and in the weeks ahead -- will be vital for reassuring consumers, both domestic and foreign.

"It's critically important for the trust and continuing of the trade between those countries," Clifford said in an interview, trying to pre-empt concerns about the nation's herd that could send the multi-billion U.S. industry into another tailspin.

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Now how about Mad Politician Disease (MPD)?  Hmmm, Could that be something of Epidemic Proportions already with no known antidote?