‘Mad cow’ disease case identified in Netherlands

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It is the first such case in the Netherlands since 2011. Read more at straitstimes.com.

THE HAGUE - Dutch officials have identified a single case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy , commonly known as “mad cow disease”, in a cow carcass, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday.

The atypical variant of BSE sporadically occurs in older cows, while the classic form is spread when farmers feed cattle with the meat and bone meal of dead and infected animals.Dutch officials had sealed off the affected farm in the South Holland province, and were culling a calf as well as animals that spent their first year growing up with the infected cow.

 

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