NEWS
10A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, MARCH 13, 2006
HEALTH
Mad Cow case unconfirmed
BY LIBBY QUAID
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The Agriculture Department is investigating a possible case of mad cow disease, the agency's chief veterinarian said Saturday.
The cow did not enter the human or animal food chain, Clifford said.
A routine test indicated the possible presence of the disease, said John Clifford, USDA official. The agency would not say where the animal was from.
The department is conducting more detailed tests at its laboratory in Ames, Iowa, and should have results in four to seven days.
"This inconclusive result does not mean we have found a new case of BSE." Clifford
said, giving the abbreviation for the disease's formal name, bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
"Inconclusive results are a normal component of most screening tests, which are designed to be extremely sensitive," he added in a statement.
trol believes the person got the disease while in the United Kingdom.
In response to the first case,
In humans, eating meat products contaminated with mad cow disease has been linked to more than 150 deaths worldwide from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a rare and fatal nerve disease.
No one is known to have contracted the disease inside the United States.
This inconclusive result does not mean we have found a new case of BSE. Inconclusive results are a normal component of most screening tests, which are designed to be extremely sensitive."
A majority of the deaths were in Britain, where there was an outbreak of mad cow disease that started in the mid-1980s. There was one case confirmed in the U.S., although the federal Centers for Disease Con-
U. S. government investigators have found two cases of mad cow disease. The first was in December 2003 in a Canadian-born cow in Washington state. The second was last June in a cow that was born and raised in Texas.
John Clifford USDA official
the Agriculture Department increased its level of testing for the disease. As of Friday, 644,603 of the nation's estimated 95 million head of cattle had been tested.
Tests are done on dead animals; there is no test for the disease in a live
cow. The department primarily tests animals that can't walk, have signs of nervous system disorder, are emaciated or injured or that have died. These animals are considered to be at greatest risk of having the disease.
Clifford said the U.S. has "a system of interlocking safeguards" against mad cow disease that protects people and health. The U.S. has a ban on adding remains of dead cattle to feed for live cattle, because eating contaminated feed is how the disease is believed to spread.
The government also requires the removal of tissues known to carry the disease when animals are slaughtered.
Hot to trot
Monks walk across smoldering ground during a rite of purification at the foot of Mt. Takao in Hachioji, located in north western Tokyo, on Sunday. Hundreds of Buddhist priests and their believers conducted the purification ceremony, walking on the smoldering ground, as an annual event to mark the coming of spring.
Junii Kurokawn/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Israel seeks U.S. approval of new borders
INTERNATIONAJ
BY MARK LAVIE
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JERUSALEM Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert approached the United States with his plan to determine Israel's borders before making it public, an aide said Sunday, reflecting how crucial U.S. support would be for any initiative to separate from the Palestinians.
Ariel Sharon similarly brought the U.S. into the loop early three years ago when he embarked on his historic Gaza Strip pullout. Sharon was felled by a stroke on Jan. 4 and remains in a coma. Olmert, his closest political ally, became acting prime minister.
Olmert's spokesman, Asaf Shariv, said an aide to the acting prime minister presented
the plan to a U.S. official before Olmert disclosed it last week in interviews.
"They neither approved nor obiected to it." Shariv said.
Stewart Tuttle, a U.S. Embassy spokesman, was unable to confirm that the conversation took place.
their present West Bank locations into the larger settlement blocs, and maintain control of the strategic Jordan River valley and Jerusalem holy sites. The plan effectively leaves the rest of the territory for the Palestinians and has energized Israel's election campaign.
In his interviews, Olmert said he planed to move tens of thousands of settlers from
At least tacit U.S. approval would be critical, as the U.S. is Israel's most important ally.
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