US well being officers have detected an atypical case of “mad cow illness” in a beef cow at a slaughter plant within the state of South Carolina, they introduced Friday.
The US Division of Agriculture stated in an announcement that the animal “by no means entered slaughter channels and at no time introduced a threat to the meals provide or to human well being in the US.”
The company stated that the US has a “negligible threat standing” for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), because the neurologic illness is formally known as, and “we don’t count on any commerce impacts because of this discovering.”
BSE is linked to the deadly human situation Creutzfeldt-Jakob illness if contaminated meat is eaten.
The atypical variant sporadically happens in older cattle, whereas the basic kind is unfold when farmers feed their herds with the meat and bone meal of contaminated animals.
The basic kind poses extra hazard to people.
That is the seventh time BSE has been detected in the US over the previous 20 years and all however one in all them have been atypical, officers stated.
Previous BSE instances in the US, Canada, Israel, Europe and Japan have brought on disruptions to the worldwide meals commerce price billions of {dollars}.
However the US well being company was assured the recent discovering “is not going to change the negligible threat standing of the US, and shouldn’t result in any commerce points.”
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