Germany confirms mad cow disease in bovine
21/01/2014
The 10-year-old cow, which did not show any clinical signs of the disease, was destroyed, according to Germany’s Food & Agriculture Ministry, and animal didn’t enter the human food chain.
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was confirmed in testing on January 9, according to the notification. The slaughtered cow carried a “very rare” atypical form of the bovine disease, known as L-type, that is not generally associated with the animal consuming infected feed, the OIE wrote.
BSE can cause a human form known as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The fatal neurological condition is linked to the consumption of meat from sick cattle.
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