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 | U.S. Mad Cow Disease Crisis: A Taiwanese couple walk past a huge sign of hamburger outside a US franchise store of Burger King in downtown Taipei on 25 December, 2003. Local fast-good chain stores said their sales had been little affected by the report of the first suspect mad cow disease in the United States. click to open  |  | U.S. Mad Cow Disease Crisis: A 'No Trespassing' sign is posted at the Sunny Dene Ranch near Mabton, Washington December 24, 2003. A dairy cow from the farm was found to be infected with Mad Cow disease after it was tested earlier this month according to the USDA. click to open |  | U.S. Mad Cow Disease Crisis: A Chinese man shops for domestic beef product at a supermarket in Beijing, China, Thursday, Dec 25, 2003. China on Thursday banned U.S. beef imports, joining more than a dozen countries worldwide that have blocked shipments amid fears of mad cow disease. China is not a major beef importer. click to open |  | U.S. Mad Cow Disease Crisis: A worker at a cold storage company marks a pile of packages of imported U.S. beef with a cross in Yongin, 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 26, 2003. South Korea halted imports of U.S. beef Wednesday and suspended sales of all U.S. beef and cow parts already on the market amid a mad cow scare in the United States. The Korean letters say 'Don't approach.' click to open |  | U.S. Mad Cow Disease Crisis: Butchers chop South Korean beef at a department store in Seoul, December 26, 2003. South Korea has temporarily stopped imports of U.S. beef after the United States reported its first case of mad cow disease earlier this week. click to open |  | U.S. Mad Cow Disease Crisis: Dan Senn walks past feeding cows at the dairy farm Sunny Dene Ranch Friday, Dec. 26, 2003, in Mabton, Wash. The farm has been quarantined by the state because a cow that came from the farm has been infected with mad cow disease. Senn, a private contractor, artificially inseminates cows on the farm. click to open |  | U.S. Mad Cow Disease Crisis: Quarantined holstein cows feed at the snow-covered Sunny Dene Ranch in Mabton, in the state of Washington, December, 27, 2003. The ranch is where a cow which tested positive for mad cow disease lived before being slaughtered on December 9, 2003 in Moses Lake, Washington. click to open |  | U.S. Mad Cow Disease Crisis: Children peer out the window while eating hamburgers in a Chicago McDonald's restaurant, December 26, 2003. The U.S. Agriculture Department said on Friday it quarantined a second herd in Washington state as part of its investigation into the nation's first case of mad cow disease. Restaurant shares edged higher after sliding earlier this week on fears that consumers will shy away from beef because of of the mad cow case. McDonald's gained 13 cents to $24.09. click to open |  | U.S. Mad Cow Disease Crisis: Paul Murray, a butcher at Lobel's of New York, stacks up cuts of beef to be shipped from the butcher shop on Madison Avenue, December 26, 2003. Mark Lobel, a fifth generation butcher and co-owner of the shop, said his mail order business has not suffered in the face of the Mad Cow disease scare. 'We expect the consumers to be a little leery,' he said, adding it was 'business as always.' Lobel's opened in 1840 and has been on Madison Avenue for 50 years. click to open |  | U.S. Mad Cow Disease Crisis: Cows eat at the dairy farm Sunny Dene Ranch Saturday, Dec. 27, 2003, in Mabton, Wash. The farm has been quarantined by the state because a cow that came from the farm has been infected with mad cow disease. click to open |
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