blood can transmit prions, so during birth there is that possibility as the placenta
separates. however, calves dont nurse long on dairy cows, and they are saying this
cow was born before the ban. still no evidence it is transmitted in milk. Ingrid

~ jan JJsPond.us wrote:
So you're saying you got the impression from the articles it was the fetus
that picked up BSE from the mother eating infected feed? The fetus and
eventually calf/cow was the one they found infected? I must be
misunderstanding, because Canada only found 1 BSE cow, if the calf had it,
so would have the mother. Unless the calf was fed contaminated feed, which
it would have gotten in Canada if born there from the PG US cow. ???


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