Tracing Source of Mad Cow Case Could Take Months, U.S. Says

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NY Times

December 26, 2003

The Department of Agriculture said today that it could take weeks or months to trace where a dairy cow with the nation's first case of mad cow disease was born — and that investigators might not succeed at all.




That's a comfort? So can someone tell me how the hell our government was able to track down 18 hijackers in one day, but they might not be able to figure out where the hell this cow came from? This is ridiculous.


PS: Sorry about the link to the Times, you have to be registered to see it, but this is the only report so far that I saw with this particular gem of information.