It said it was particularly unhappy that farmers with a herd that has had a cow possibly infected by TB cannot buy in cattle for at least two months.

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Back on Kimball Mountain, with trigger pulled, the elk herd disperses, except for my cow.

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Mad cow disease has been circulating and amplifying in the US herd since then.

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French consumption of beef plunged last year when three supermarket chains said they had sold beef from a herd containing an animal infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), otherwise known as mad cow disease.

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