Japan confirms 10th mad cow case
Japanese health authorities have reported the country’s 10th case of mad cow disease, after a suspected dairy cow was confirmed to have the disease after a series of tests.
Japanese health authorities have reported the country’s 10th case of mad cow disease, after a suspected dairy cow was confirmed to have the disease after a series of tests. A meeting of experts concluded the 95-month-old Holstein had bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare said in a statement. The carcass of the cow had not reached the market, it added. Japan, the only country in Asia to have confirmed BSE, uncovered its first case in September 2001 and shortly afterwards introduced measures to screen every cow slaughtered for consumption. The cow of the most recent case was born in early 1996, like six of the nine previous cows that tested positive in Japan. It was raised in a dairy farm in Kanagawa prefecture, south of Tokyo.
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