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Posted: 04/25/12 12:33 PM ET  |  Updated: 04/25/12 01:22 PM ET

Mad Cow Disease In California: Herbivores, Omnivores And Carnivores React On Twitter

Tuesday afternoon, the USDA held a press briefing to confirm that a case of mad cow disease was found in a California dairy cow. The case was discovered by a random sampling taken from a cow carcass at a hide-removal site in Hanford.

The cow did not enter the human food chain and this situation has not been deemed a health threat to humans, but people are still abuzz:

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Tuesday afternoon, the USDA held a press briefing to confirm that a case of mad cow disease was found in a California dairy cow. The case was discovered by a random sampling taken from a cow carcass a...
Tuesday afternoon, the USDA held a press briefing to confirm that a case of mad cow disease was found in a California dairy cow. The case was discovered by a random sampling taken from a cow carcass a...
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Cattle remains are still fed to chickens and the poultry litter is fed back to cows. In this way, prions -- the infectious proteins that cause mad cow disease -- may continue to cycle back into cattle feed and complete the cow "cannibalism" circuit blamed for the spread of the disease.

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