Mad cow case in Calif. found in USDA testing

HANFORD, Calif. — The dis­cov­ery of mad cow dis­ease in a dead dairy cow came soon after it arrived at a non-descript build­ing in the heart of California’s dairy coun­try. The find­ing, announced Tues­day, is the first new case of the dis­ease in the U.S. since 2006 and the fourth ever dis­cov­ered in the coun­try. The test was per­formed when the ani­mal was brought to the build­ing, a trans­fer facil­ity for a pro­cess­ing plant near Hanford.