NAIS helps control cattle, other livestock diseases
Registration of animals helps officials determine where outbreaks begin, how to treat
Elizabeth Barrett
Gothenburg Times
Mad cow disease in Nebraska?
So far that hasn’t happened even though bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)—commonly known as mad cow disease—was diagnosed in a dairy and a beef cow in two separate incidents in North America in 2003.
Today, it’s unlikely that a mad cow disease outbreak of any magnitude could happen.
That’s because of actions taken by United States and Canada officials to prevent the transmission of BSE to cattle in contaminated feedstuffs, according to University of Nebraska Extension veterinarians David R. Smith and Dee Griffin.
