Test shows animal free of mad cow
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WASHINGTON - Definitive testing has ruled out mad cow disease in an animal that federal officials had identified last week as a potential carrier, officials said Tuesday.
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The government has ordered a definitive laboratory test after two preliminary screening tests raised the possibility of mad cow disease in the tissue of a recently slaughtered animal, federal officials said yesterday.
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WASHINGTON - Government scientists are trying to determine whether the country has a second case of mad cow disease. The US Agriculture Department announced yesterday that two rapid-screening tests on a suspect cow were positive for the disease.
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Washington, DC - A cow suspected of being the nation&#39;s second case of mad cow disease has tested negative for the brain-wasting disease, a relief to the US beef industry.
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The United States likely has another case of mad cow disease after an animal tested &quot;inconclusive&quot; in two preliminary tests, but a false positive was also possible, experts said on Thursday.
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TOKYO Oct 22, 2004 - A Holstein in western Japan tested positive for mad cow disease in a preliminary test conducted Saturday, an official said.
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Further tests are carried out as it is confirmed a cow on a North East farm has the bluetongue virus.
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Test results today showed foot and mouth disease was present in livestock when the UK was declared disease free earlier this month.
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A possible new case of mad cow disease has been found in the United States, the Agriculture Department said Thursday. The agency said the brain of a cow tested positive three times on
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Two rounds of precise tests in an Iowa lab found no evidence of mad cow disease in an animal suspected last week of having the brain-wasting ailment, federal officials said Tuesday.
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An animal suspected of having mad cow disease was given a clean bill of health in a second round of sophisticated testing, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Tuesday after cattle prices soared in expectation of the news.
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Canada&#39;s Food Inspection Agency said multiple screening tests indicate a 10-year-old dairy cow may have mad cow disease. Today&#39;s announcement comes a day after the US said it would lift a ban on cattle imports from Canada in March.
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The US Department of Agriculture yesterday said it is testing a suspect animal for mad cow disease and would know within a week whether it has discovered the second case in the United States.
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TOKYO - Japan could stop testing newborn and younger cows for mad cow disease without posing a risk to public health, a special panel decided Monday, in a ruling that could influence talks to lift Tokyo's ban on American beef imports.    Japan shut its doors to U.S...
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The Department of Agriculture said a cow had tested positive for mad cow disease. If confirmed, it would be the second US case. The cow tested positive on so-called rapid tests, which are considered inconclusive until further testing is completed.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it has detected what may be another case of mad cow in Canada.
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Britain said Tuesday a goat diagnosed as having the brain-wasting disease scrapie in 1990 may have had mad cow disease, but it would take up to two years of further tests to confirm this.