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"  The two words beef eaters were hoping to never hear again have returned to the headlines: mad cow. This time, however, the affected animal was not found at a cattle ranch, but rather at a dairy farm in California. According to the Associated Press, this discovery was only the fourth case of mad cow disease to ever be found in the U.S. The incident happened on Tuesday during a routine inspection at a transfer facility when a sick cow appeared to be &amp;quot;lame&amp;quot; and unsteady. The animal is believed to be over 10 years old and, according to CNN, was found at Baker Commodities Inc., a rendering facility in Hanford, California. The cow was owned by a dairy farmer in Tulare County, which is the number one dairy producer in the country. Executive Vice President Dennis Luckey told CNN, &amp;quot;We are in the business of removing dead animals from dairies in the Central Valley. As part of that program, we participate in the BSE surveillance program.&amp;quot; More From Delish: 13 Nutrition and Food Myths Busted The sick cow was euthanized and the carcass is under quarantine, but the USDA does not believe there are any risks to the milk supply. However, that&amp;#039;s not stopping two South Korean retailers and a division of Britain&amp;#039;s Tesco from suspending all sales of U.S. beef. Mad cow, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), is a fatal disease that causes the body to form a prion, an abnormally shaped protein, which eventually enters the brain and kills the cells. When contracted by humans the deadly disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob, would be detected by the presence of unusual psychiatric symptoms and behavioral changes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states the odds of contracting the disease is less than one in 10 billion. More From Delish: Danger, Danger! 11 Foods That Can Kill Mad Cow first topped the news in 1986, when the disease killed 184,000 cows worldwide and killed more than 150 people. It caused global panic. Since that time, stricter inspection has been enforced and discovery of BSE has been very rare. According to Dr. Bruce Akey, professor of veterinary medicine and director of the Animal Health Diagnostic Center at Cornell University, this instance of mad cow is extremely rare. He told Reuters, &amp;quot;this is an extremely isolated, atypical event.&amp;quot; Are you concerned about the safety of the country&amp;#039;s milk supply given this recent news? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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