Nebraska Downer Cow Tissue Sample

A quarantined bovine from a Nebraska herd exposed to banned feed 18 months prior crumples, legs buckling under neurological assault—tremors, collapse, incapacity to stand. Doctors Bedrosien and Califf seize tissue samples, rush tests revealing Iowa's presumptive mad cow positive, thrusting the carcass into Leo McGarry's path as crisis ignites in the Roosevelt Room.

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S3E8 · The Women of Qumar

Leo Briefed on Presumptive Mad Cow Case

Doctors detail tissue ripped from the symptomatic downer cow, dispatched to NVSL Ames (presumptive positive) and UK lab for verdict; it embodies the diagnostic linchpin, propelling Leo's questions and revealing stakes from one ravaged sample to millions, central to crisis authentication.

Before: Extracted from neurologically compromised downer cow in quarantined Nebraska herd

After: Iowa-tested presumptive positive; UK sample pending confirmation, quarantined pending results

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