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Article: Schools monitor mad cow disease; Many officials plan no changes to lunch menus
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- January 5, 2004
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Meat chili. It's what's for lunch today when the
650 students of the Reardan-Edwall School District in eastern
Washington state return to class.
The district is about a 90-minute drive from the Moses Lake plant
where a Holstein infected with mad cow disease was slaughtered. News
of that first mad cow case in the United States broke Dec. 23 when
many of the nation's schools were on break.
That means today will be the first time that millions of students
return to the school cafeteria, the place where hamburgers and meat-
topped pizza often rule.
"The chances of the disease being contracted by humans is so
minute that it shouldn't change the way we do things," said Rob
Clark, ...