Mad cow disease seems to be losing its shock value, judging from the muted response to Canada's fifth confirmed case, but scientific concerns about the risk to public health continue to be debated.

Beef and livestock prices barely budged when the Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed this weekend that a B.C. dairy cow had tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, as mad cow disease is scientifically known.

The six-year-old dairy cow didn't make front pages, unlike her predecessors with the same condition in recent years when confirmed cases caused livestock markets to crash, raised swift trade barriers and caused widespread public comment, if not panic, far beyond agricultural circles.


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Not at all surprising.

*sigh* It's all so sad.

I'm sure this makes the beef industry happy.