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Mad Cow Disease Confirmed In California
New submitter wave9x writes "The United States Department of Agriculture confirmed today that the nation's fourth case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, sometimes referred to as 'mad cow disease' was found in a dairy cow in California. The animal has been euthanized and the carcass is being being held under State authority at a rendering facility in California and will be destroyed."
Unless you drank a glass of milk containing a single unit of the malformed protein, in which case you are going to die in 10-30 years.
There is some promising work on "vaccines" in mice, but the way this country is screwed up with regards to medical regulation, I'm not sure we'll see it in time.