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Test confirms 14th Chech BSEcase

09/09/2004

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.

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