A technician tests a sample of a dairy cow at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's laboratory in California on April 13.

This is the annual routine BSE inspection of dairy cows by the USDA, and no cases of BSE have been detected in dairy cows in the United States before, so the technicians are also somewhat nonchalant.

When the test results came out, he glanced at them lightly, and his pupils shrank sharply - the test result was actually "positive"!

"Positive" means that the cow that was tested was infected with "mad cow disease"!

He stood up suddenly, didn't even bother with the chair down, and after repeatedly confirming that the test results were correct, he immediately reported it to the Bureau of Agriculture, causing a "bloody storm" in the American livestock industry!

BSE, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is an infectious disease that affects the central nervous system of cattle. Cows infected with this disease will gradually become like a kind of spongy cheese body, a veritable "brain paste", which eventually leads to death.

The point is that every case of BSE represents great upheaval in the livestock industry in the country where the case occurs.

Therefore, the U.S. Department of Agriculture immediately culled the sick cattle and found that the farms of the sick cattle had also been closed, so they held a press conference on the matter.

Sure enough, as soon as the news came out, the whole United States was in an uproar.

The panic caused by the first case of "mad cow disease" in the United States in 03 is still vivid. It was not easy to eliminate the impact of "mad cow disease", and now it is making a comeback?

But the good news is that the U.S. health department later announced that the "mad cow" found this time is not a threat to the U.S. national food supply chain.

First of all, the infected cow is a cow over 30 months old, and humans can only get mad cow disease if they eat directly from infected beef, and there is no need to panic with the news that beef from American cows does not enter the meat supply chain at all.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also says that even people who have drunk milk from the cow have only a 1 in 10 billion chance of contracting BSE.

The most reassuring thing is the progress of the USDA's follow-up investigation. Investigation revealed that the infected California cow was an atypical case of BSE, i.e. the cow did not become ill from eating infected feed. This means that there will be no mass infections due to infected feed.

The startled market calmed down a bit. In order to prevent mad cow disease from impacting the U.S. livestock industry, officials in charge of agriculture have assured the public that there is no problem with U.S. beef. Some politicians in the main beef producing areas also "chewed" on beef and promised cattle farmers that they would speak for them.

Before the words fell, cases of "mad cow disease" appeared one after another in nine Midwestern states, including Washington, Oregon, California, and Nevada.

It's a lot of fun.

Experts believe...... Well, in fact, no expert is needed, anyone with eyes can see that the "mad cow source" may have spread widely in the American cattle industry.

The White House was alarmed and immediately took emergency measures to control the further spread of mad cow disease in the United States. Farms or slaughterhouses where BSE cases have been reported are closed, sick cattle are culled and incinerated, and the Ministry of Health conducts BSE tests to prevent the spread of BSE in society.

The USDA is going crazy!

The 11 cases of mad cow disease found before and after, including dairy cows and beef cattle, adult cattle and young cows, not only brought great shock to the United States, but even to the world.

Because it has long been thought that only adult cattle are infected with BSE, and now there are cases as young as 20 months old, the USDA is concerned that this is a sign of the emergence of BSE.

But damn it, where exactly did the "source of mad cow disease" come from?

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"The Nine Shadows Ecstasy Array (Fourth Order) is triggered, the five systems are balanced, and the range is 1,000 kilometers away. Effects: Dreams, Ecstasy. It can make both real and illusory, and the mind and mind converge. ”

When the mind of the same species converges, illusions can also come true—a high-level application of the "Nine Shadows Ecstasy Array".

The first "mad cow disease" cow was real, and Qi Zheng happened to have an impression of it. After all, he is not going to be frenzied and directly "poisoned".

But through the "Nine Shadows Ecstasy Array", the other cows in the array seemed to have also suffered from "mad cow disease", and then ...... There are really cows suffering from "mad cow disease"!

To put it simply, consciousness directly changes the material world.

The quantum mechanical double-slit experiment has shown us that consciousness can really change matter: the particle before observation passes through two gaps, and when observed, the particle passes through only one gap, as if it knew it was being looked at – the observer changed its state.

The "Nine Shadows Ecstasy Array" here plays such an "observer" role. When normal cattle that are entangled with sick cattle feel that they are infected with "mad cow disease", the diseased factor, that is, prions, is produced in the body.

Prions are familiar with the "mad cow disease virus", which can damage the nervous system, cause cavernous cavities in the brain, and can spread across species, and its safety level is biosafety level 3, and the danger is comparable to SARS virus and rabies virus.

To be honest, if it weren't for the discovery of this high-level usage of the "Nine Shadows Ecstasy Array", Qi Zheng really didn't plan to do anything with "mad cow disease".

For a long time, Qi Zheng has been extremely cautious in the use of microorganisms such as bacteria directly affected by the spirit array. Especially prions, which are lethal viruses that can infect humans, never dared to use the spirit array to promote reproduction or anything - he was afraid that one would accidentally "wipe out" the human race.

The effect of the "Nine Shadows Ecstasy Array" is different.

To achieve this effect of "consciousness altering matter", the conditions are quite harsh. First of all, the acting organism should have "brains". After all, a creature with insufficient brain capacity or even no brain, you have to make it "ecstatic", laughing!

Secondly, the "Nine Ghost Ecstasy Array" acts on the central nervous system, which can "change", and it is also a neurological disease, and it can only work on the same species.

Of course, not all the cattle that enter the formation will be "infected" with "mad cow disease", and the cattle themselves also have an immune system. The ones that will be "infected" are basically cattle with a fairly weak immune system.

The most important thing is that after all, it does not act on the prions themselves, and there is no risk of the virus getting out of control. As soon as the spirit array stopped, the "infection" also stopped.

It was the first time Qi Zheng had applied this effect, thanks to the opportunity provided by Lao Mei.

The U.S. livestock industry is vomiting blood.

If it is only a single case, it can be claimed that it will not necessarily cause great harm to people and livestock, but the successive cases appear so that even a fool cannot deceive them.

On the Chicago Board of Trade market, live cattle futures prices fell to the lowest point allowed by the market, and other markets were also hit hard. Not only have beef prices and beef products stocks plummeted in the United States, but even McDonald's Corp., which sells beef burgers, has fallen 8 percent, and restaurant stocks have hardly been spared.

Consumer confidence has also taken a hit, with beef sales plummeting. Consumers are rushing to tell each other, and the number of consumers who buy beef is almost extinct. Because some cows are infected, they don't even dare to drink milk.

That's a big loss!

In the United States, livestock accounts for nearly half of the total value of agricultural output, and beef cattle are the largest production sector in the United States, accounting for 25% of the value of livestock production. It's a vital industry with a value of more than $200 billion that supports more than 1 million businesses, farms and feedlots.

Now it is worse than after the first case of "mad cow disease" in the United States appeared in 03. On that occasion, U.S. beef exports fell sharply, with direct losses of $3 billion in six months. This time, the most optimistic estimate by experts is that the beef industry is also losing more than $10 billion this year.

Because the reaction in the international market has been quite violent. As soon as the news came out, most countries and regions immediately took emergency measures, suspending the import of beef and related products from the United States, and even removing American beef from the market.

Under heavy pressure from the United States on its allies, it was not until last year that U.S. beef exports basically recovered. However, in countries and regions such as Japan and South Korea, there have always been voices opposing the import of American beef. Now that the United States has once again discovered a serious epidemic of "mad cow disease", the good situation has been ruined.

The cows are crazy, and the Americans are going crazy too!

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