A control test has confirmed bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in an eight-year-old cow from a South Bohemian farm, according to State Veterinary Administration spokesman Josef Duben.

The cow is the fourteenth Czech animal infected with the “mad cow disease”. Some 92 cows of the same age as the sick animal will be put down, 84 of them from the Hrejkovice farm where the infected cow was bred.

Czech vets have tested almost 650,000 animals for BSE from the beginning of 2001 to the end of July this year. The first Czech case of the “mad cow disease” was detected in June 2001, after which vets ordered tests on all slaughtered animals older than 30 months.

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