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Article: Animal Suspected of Having Mad Cow Disease Is Uninfected
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- The Washington Post
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- July 1, 2004
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An animal suspected of having mad cow disease based on a new rapid
screening test has turned out to be uninfected, the Agriculture
Department said yesterday.
USDA chief veterinarian John Clifford said more sophisticated
testing conducted at the National Veterinary Services Laboratories in
Ames, Iowa, showed that the cow was free of the disease.
The government has said that the new rapid testing is highly
sensitive and known to produce false positive results for mad cow
disease, known formally as bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Clifford
said the USDA intends to continue announcing initial "inconclusive"
results from the rapid screening to be "transparent" and open about
its mad cow ...