{"id":5535,"date":"2012-04-26T03:10:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T20:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=5535"},"modified":"2017-03-14T22:28:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T04:28:41","slug":"usda-confirms-4th-case-of-mad-cow-disease-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/usda-confirms-4th-case-of-mad-cow-disease-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA confirms 4th case of mad cow disease in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first new case of mad cow disease in the U.S. since 2006 has been discovered in a dairy cow in California, but health authorities said Tuesday the animal never was a threat to the nation&#8217;s food supply.<br \/>\nThe infected cow, the fourth ever discovered in the U.S., was found as part of an Agriculture Department surveillance program that tests about 40,000 cows a year for the fatal brain disease.<br \/>\nNo meat from the cow was bound for the food supply, said John Clifford, the department&#8217;s chief veterinary officer.<br \/>\n&#8220;There is really no cause for alarm here with regard to this animal,&#8221; Clifford told reporters at a hastily convened press conference.<br \/>\nMad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), is fatal to cows and can cause a fatal human brain disease in people who eat tainted beef. The World Health Organization has said that tests show that humans cannot be infected by drinking milk from BSE-infected animals. <a title=\"Mad Cow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/47162247\/ns\/health-health_care\/#.T5hZuxy6K4x\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first new case of mad cow disease in the U.S. since 2006 has been discovered in a dairy cow in California, but health authorities said Tuesday the animal never was a threat to the nation&#8217;s food supply. The infected cow, the fourth ever discovered in the U.S., was found as part of an Agriculture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[723,674,722,707,162],"class_list":["post-5535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disease-outbrake","category-industry","tag-bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy","tag-california","tag-john-clifford","tag-mad-cow-disease","tag-usda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7368,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535\/revisions\/7368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}