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CANADA-Research Paves Way For Quick Cheap Test For Mad Cow Disease

North American and German researchers announced a breakthrough Friday toward a cheap, fast blood test for BSE, or so-called "mad cow disease" in livestock. The research paves the way for a simple blood test "to eliminate infected animals from the human-food chain, even before the onset of clinical signs," said the report, published this month in the Oxford Journal Nucleic Acids Research.