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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.
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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
In the 1980s, concerns about bovine spongiform encephalopathy — or mad cow disease — took hold across Europe, when cases of the incurable and invariably fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle began to appear.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2024
For decades, people who had lived in or traveled to the U.K. or other places hit by mad cow disease were banned from donating blood, for fear of passing on the disease.
—Liz Szabo, NBC News, 29 Jan. 2024
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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
In the 1980s, concerns about bovine spongiform encephalopathy — or mad cow disease — took hold across Europe, when cases of the incurable and invariably fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle began to appear.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2024
For decades, people who had lived in or traveled to the U.K. or other places hit by mad cow disease were banned from donating blood, for fear of passing on the disease.
—Liz Szabo, NBC News, 29 Jan. 2024
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