NVSL
Federal Veterinary Pathology Laboratory for Bovine Disease Testing and Mad Cow SurveillanceDescription
NVSL's Ames, Iowa laboratory unleashes presumptive positive mad cow diagnosis from Nebraska cattle tissue, slamming quarantined herds into national crisis crosshairs. Doctors Bedrosien and Califf hurl the verdict at Leo McGarry in the Roosevelt Room, exposing 12,000 tested amid 40 million at stake—worst-case national emergency and class-one recall loom as this federal testing nerve center propels White House into economic Armageddon, bridging veterinary frontline to presidential resolve.