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Published online 30 December 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news031229-3

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First mad cow found in America

Finding raises questions about BSE protection measures.

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For the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), it was about the worst Christmas present imaginable: the country's first case of mad cow disease.

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