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" Attention non-vegan Americans: A case of mad cow disease has been discovered at an agricultural transfer station in California. It&amp;#039;s only the fourth case ever to be identified in the U.S., and the first in six years, which makes this a pretty big deal for the beef industry. The good news: The meat never made it into the food supply, given that this was a dairy cow to begin with, and has since been, uh, retired. The bad news: The disease was discovered by way of a totally random test, and the cow was showing no symptoms, meaning... How many others could be out there, right? For those not up on their epidemiology, mad cow disease \u2014 or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) \u2014 is a fatal disease that damages the brains of infected cattle, and humans can develop a version through eating contaminated meat (milk goes unaffected). Yes, it sounds terrifying, but you can remain calm for the time being. There&amp;#039;s still no known BSE in our food supply, and even in the mid-90s, when as many as a million cows were infected in the UK, there were still under 200 human cases reported. Only two Americans have ever gotten sick from mad cow disease, and both were believed to have picked it up while overseas. So, there&amp;#039;s really no need to boycott beef. Carry on with the burgers and steaks. [CNN Eatocracy] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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