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The team drained the pool and then lifted her to safety using a downer cow harness – a piece of equipment designed to protect her udders. The cow was checked over by a vet after the ordeal.

In a three-hour operation, crews drained the pool and lifted the animal out using a downer cow harness, a piece of equipment designed to protect udders, before handing it over to a vet for a check-up.

Because current tests require post-slaughter brain tissue for analysis, in the United States only cattle already showing clinical symptoms of BSE (so-called “downer cows”) are tested for the ...