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[Hank Chinaski]

I'm just saying......


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,106725,00.html

Investigators tentatively traced the first U.S. cow with mad cow disease (search) to Canada, which could help determine the scope of the outbreak and might even limit the economic damage to the American beef industry.
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Dr. Ron DeHaven (search), the Agriculture Department's chief veterinarian, said on Saturday that Canadian officials provided records indicating the sick Holstein was in a herd of 74 cattle shipped from Alberta, Canada, into this country in August 2001 at Eastport, Idaho.
The National Cattlemen's Beef Association (search) in Denver said the indication that the infected cow was from Canada means U.S. trading partners should reopen their borders to American beef. The farm organization said a beef export monitoring program would allow importers to separate beef of Canadian origin if they feel additional precautions are needed.

Federal officials announced on Tuesday that tests indicated the cow, which ended up at a Washington farm in October 2001, had mad cow, a brain-wasting illness. An international laboratory in England confirmed it Thursday.
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Connecting the infected cow to Canada could deal another blow to the Canadian beef industry, which has struggled since it found its case of mad cow last May. It lost $1 million in beef trade per day as countries cut off beef imports.