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A member asked:
I just ate a cow brain taco, and it wasn't bad. do i need to worry about getting mad cow disease now?
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Not likely: Unless you live in a country in which bovines with mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalitis) have not been adequately eliminated from the population, your risk is slight.
Answered 10/4/2016
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