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30th Case in Japan

Mike

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Japan's farm ministry confirms country's 30th case of mad cow disease

The Associated Press
TOKYO — Japan's Agriculture Ministry said Monday it confirmed the country's 30th case of mad cow disease.

Tests on the 5-year-old dairy cow performed at the National Institute of Animal Health confirmed that the cow, which died at a ranch on Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, was infected with the fatal illness.

The animal will be destroyed and incinerated so its parts will not be circulated for consumption or used as feed, the ministry said.

Japan has now confirmed 30 animals infected with the fatal illness — known formally as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE — since the first case in Japan was detected in 2001.

The degenerative nerve disease found in older cattle has been linked to the rare but fatal human variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Japan initially banned U.S. beef in December 2003 after the first reported case of mad cow disease in a U.S. herd. Tokyo eased the ban in July after U.S. and Japanese officials hammered out a deal that included strict restrictions and stringent checks at U.S. meat processing plants.
 
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