Article: COWS SHIPPED FROM CANADA WERE NOT SICK COWS HAVE BEEN SENT HERE FROM ALBERTA, WHERE MAD COW WAS DISCOVERED, BUT NOT THE SAME FARM.(LOCAL/WISCONSIN)

Byline: Todd Richmond Associated Press

Wisconsin has taken in nearly a thousand cattle during the last five years from the Canadian province where mad cow disease has been found, raising concerns the deadly brain ailment might be discovered in the state, agriculture officials said.

State veterinarian Robert Ehlenfeldt said the imports from Alberta create a risk, albeit a small one, the disease is here.

"It could happen," Ehlenfeldt said. "I wouldn't be totally surprised, no. Is it likely? I don't know how you put a number on that."

Wisconsin has imported 989 head of cattle from Alberta between 1998 and 2003, state Department of ...

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