THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Dutch officers have recognized a single case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, generally often called “mad cow disease”, in a cow carcass, the agriculture ministry stated Wednesday.
The animal, an eight-year-old cow, examined optimistic for an “atypical” variant which arises sporadically in animals and is believed to pose much less threat to people, it stated.
It is the primary such case within the Netherlands since 2011.
The contaminated cow “did not enter the food chain and did not pose a risk to food safety,” Agriculture Minister Piet Adema stated.
BSE is linked to the deadly human situation Creutzfeldt-Jakob illness if contaminated meat is ingested.
The atypical variant of BSE sporadically happens in older cows, whereas the traditional kind is unfold when farmers feed cattle with the meat and bone meal of useless and contaminated animals.
The traditional kind poses extra hazard to people.
Dutch officers had sealed off the affected farm within the South Holland province, and have been culling a calf in addition to animals that spent their first yr rising up with the contaminated cow.
“In total, 13 bovines have been traced and will now be culled and tested,” for BSE, the ministry stated in an announcement.
Mad cow illness first appeared in Britain within the Nineteen Eighties and unfold to many international locations in Europe and all over the world, inflicting shopper alarm and triggering a disaster within the beef business.
There have been 88 instances of traditional BSE reported within the Netherlands since 1997 and 4 atypical instances. — Agence France-Presse
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