It's now our turn: First U.S. mad cow case confirmed

[Drake Tungsten]

Good idea. The only problem being that I've never seen a cow in Japan and really don't know where they are...

They might be in Hokkaido, but I'm not going to that frozen hell-hole. Looks like it's all up to you, my Canadian comrade. Good luck.

[Shogun Gunner]

Perhaps praying to Hathor, The Cow God, will yield better results.

[Peter Triggs]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Only beef (and even then an overreaction).

Chicken has been safe throughout.

For the record, the risk of contracting salmonella poisoning from eating chicken (which can kill you) is incomparably higher than the risk of contracting nvCJD from eating beef.

This whole Mad Cow Disease scare looks like it's going to turn out to be just a bunch of media hype.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Good idea. The only problem being that I've never seen a cow in Japan and really don't know where they are...

They might be in Hokkaido, but I'm not going to that frozen hell-hole. Looks like it's all up to you, my Canadian comrade. Good luck.

I'll get in my canoe and start paddling.

[KrazyHorse]

They're probably all indoors at the Honda plant or something.

[Drake Tungsten]

I'll get in my canoe and start paddling.

It's one star to the left of Alaska and then straight on until morning...

Perhaps praying to Hathor, The Cow God, will yield better results.

Hey, that reminded me that there's a statue of a cow inside my local Shinto shrine. 'Tis time to placate the kami for deliverance, me thinks...

[Drake Tungsten]

[Drake Tungsten]

What the hell?

Japan was the first country to find an infected cow outside of Europe. Its first case of the disease was reported in the Chiba area east of Tokyo in August 2001.

In November this year, Japan confirmed that a 21-month-old Holstein in Hiroshima prefecture in western Japan had tested positive for BSE on October 29.

It was the ninth mad cow case for Japan since the illness was discovered in the country two years ago and its second in less than a month.

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/BUSINESS/12/23/japan.madcow.reax/index.html

The Japanese are hippocrytes!!!

[KrazyHorse]

What a ****ing bunch of ****ing *****.

[KrazyHorse]

Especially given that their cattle population has to be smaller than either the US' or Canada's...

[Drake Tungsten]

I'm going to punch some random Japanese guy in the face tonight. That'll teach them to **** with American beef!

[KrazyHorse]

USA! USA! USA!

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Shogun Gunner
Perhaps praying to Hathor, The Cow God, will yield better results.

Perhaps not

[Drake Tungsten]

I'll give him a kick while he's down for Canada, as well.

Oh Canada, our home and native land...

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Anyhow, the UK had like what? 5 deaths from BSE?

http://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk/figures.htm

Total number of deaths as a result of vCJD in the UK as of 1st December 2003 = 101, with another 36 deaths believed, but not proven beyond doubt, to be caused by vCJD.

First reported deaths (3 of them) were in 1995.

137 deaths in 9 years = 15 deaths per year on average. Nothing to start getting frantic about, but still that's fifteen more than you'd want.

Yearly deaths from vCJD increased until they reached a peak of 28 in 2000. They've been steadily falling since then - there were 16 this year.