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To: stockman_scott who wrote (33752)	12/28/2003 8:29:37 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

The BSE incubation period in cattle is anywhere from three to eight years. "For this 4-year-old animal (in Washington state) to develop this disease, it would have had to ingest the prion as a calf," he said. "This cow consumed feed in the United States that was probably contaminated with rendered cattle byproducts." Actually, the disease could have been transmitted during insemination. Where is that bull? Also from that article..."the good news is that only 130 people died," the bad news is that they died from beef they'd eaten ten years before..or thirty years before. The MDC incubation among humans is 10 to 40 years! Ten, 20 years from now, much of the US population could succumb.