Federal officials have confirmed the existence of Mad cow disease in a British Columbia dairy cow. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said that the finding of mad cow disease in a Canadian cow does not affect the safety of Canadian beef.
The infected cow has been identified as a six-year-old dairy cow that was raised near Chilliwack in B.C.’s Fraser Valley. Federal officials have found the farm where it was born. They are now tracing all possible infection pathways including the source of its food.
This was the fifth Canadian cow to come down with Mad cow among the 100,000 high-risk animals that have been tested since 2003.
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