1.   According to officials from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, the single infected cow was descended from British stock.

2.   Even better, a trio of ostriches requires about two thirds of an acre to breed, while it takes an acre or more to graze a single cow.

3.   His ranch has never owned a single cow.

4.   Jack Vogt started ranching in California just after World War II with a single cow and wound up with a large herd in south-central Nevada.

5.   Scientists in Japan have cloned eight calves from cells they gathered from a slaughterhouse, creating eight identical copies of a single cow.

6.   Scientists in Japan report that they have cloned eight calves from cells they gathered from a slaughterhouse, creating eight identical copies of a single cow.

7.   The Agriculture Ministry announced last week that a test on the single suspect cow showed evidence of mad cow disease.

8.   University of Georgia scientists have created eight healthy clones of a single cow, the school announced Tuesday.