--- title: Canada Has a Case of Mad Cow Disease description: One Alberta cow has been diagnosed canonical: https://time.com/3708925/canada-mad-cow-disease/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-13T15:16:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T04:24:41.219Z article:section: Health og:title: Canada Has a Case of Mad Cow Disease og:description: One Alberta cow has been diagnosed og:url: https://time.com/3708925/canada-mad-cow-disease/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3d7bd53b17de347b/69877f36cd6848e76f099b2a/mad-cow-disease.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Mad Cow disease Canada og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Canada Has a Case of Mad Cow Disease twitter:description: One Alberta cow has been diagnosed twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3d7bd53b17de347b/69877f36cd6848e76f099b2a/mad-cow-disease.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Canada Has a Case of Mad Cow Disease > Sponsored content. 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Patrick Price—Reuters by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Feb 13, 2015 3:16 PM UTC A beef cow in Canada [was found](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/13/us-canada-beef-idUSKBN0LH15P20150213) to have mad cow disease, officials said Friday, the first case of the disease in the country since 2011. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is investigating the cow’s history, Reuters reports, and officials said the infected cow hadn’t been processed for consumption by humans or other animals. Cows are typically infected after eating materials from the brains or spinal cords of sick animals. When humans eat an infected cow, they can become ill with a variation of the disease. 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