Ogalala Banned Cattle Feed

Prohibited livestock feed, accidentally incorporated into the rations of a Nebraska herd in Ogalala, unleashes chaos with an 18-month quarantine after a downer cow convulses in neurological agony. Doctors Bedrosien and Califf confront Leo McGarry in the Roosevelt Room, their voices taut as they trace the presumptive mad cow vector to this illicit batch, its invisible taint now threatening vast national herds.

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Purpose

Nutritional supplement for cattle, banned due to risks of transmitting bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).

Significance

Catalyzes a looming national emergency, with Iowa's presumptive positive demanding UK confirmation and exposing the thin testing net over 40 million cattle—12,000 sampled, stakes vaulting toward economic Armageddon and class-one recalls that test White House crisis machinery.

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S3E8 · The Women of Qumar

Leo Briefed on Presumptive Mad Cow Case

Bedrosien explicitly cites the banned feed as the accidental contaminant fed to Ogalala Nebraska herd 18 months ago, triggering quarantine and the downer cow crisis; it functions narratively as the human-error spark igniting potential nationwide bovine plague, framing the briefing's peril.

Before: Illicitly incorporated into quarantined herd rations in Nebraska

After: Identified root cause, remains under investigative scrutiny via tissue fallout

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