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Can mad cow disease be transmitted from the mother to the calf as in calves taken from diary cows to be raised for slaughter for veal?
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∙ 11y ago
To the best of current scientific knowledge, no, but this has been identified as an area of concern and any offspring of a confirmed BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) case in a female cow are also tested to verify the prion was not transmitted during pregnancy.
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