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In December 2003, a McDonald’s supplier was found to have an incident of mad cow disease, sending the stock momentarily plunging.
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David Goldman, CNN, 23 Oct. 2024
These include mad cow disease, which affects mostly cattle, scrapie, which affects sheep, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which kills about 350 Americans a year ‒ most within months of their first symptom.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024
In 1998, a jury in Amarillo, Texas, rejected an $11 million lawsuit brought by Texas cattlemen who blamed Oprah Winfrey’s talk show for a price fall after a segment on food safety that included a discussion about mad cow disease.
—The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2024
Unlike mad cow disease, where cattle are often infected in closer quarters, the disease has stumped scientists for most of its existence as deer, elk and moose — members of the cervid family — are mostly solitary in the wild.
—Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 8 May 2024
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David Goldman, CNN, 23 Oct. 2024
These include mad cow disease, which affects mostly cattle, scrapie, which affects sheep, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which kills about 350 Americans a year ‒ most within months of their first symptom.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024
In 1998, a jury in Amarillo, Texas, rejected an $11 million lawsuit brought by Texas cattlemen who blamed Oprah Winfrey’s talk show for a price fall after a segment on food safety that included a discussion about mad cow disease.
—The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2024
Unlike mad cow disease, where cattle are often infected in closer quarters, the disease has stumped scientists for most of its existence as deer, elk and moose — members of the cervid family — are mostly solitary in the wild.
—Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 8 May 2024
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