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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Dallas Morning News
Byline: Katie Fairbank
Aug. 29--Ten months after a cow suffering from brain-wasting mad cow disease was found dead on arrival at a Texas slaughterhouse, a mystery endures for the public about the animal's ranch and owners.
Both the Texas Animal Health Commission and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have declined to release information that would identify where the cow was raised.
"We don't release specific locations," said Jim Rogers, a spokesman for the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. "It's just privacy information. Texas is as close as we're getting."
The diseased cow, sold through a livestock market last November, died before it was taken to the slaughterhouse.
The animal was shipped to a pet food plant in Waco, which took brain samples for testing. The carcass was burned.
Since then, the government has quarantined...
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