Japan confirms 16th case of mad cow disease

AP WorldStream via COMTEX ^ | March 27th, 2005

[M. Espinola]

TOKYO: Japan confirmed its 16th case of mad cow disease on Sunday in a 9-year-old cow from northern Japan, the government said.

Experts concluded that the Holstein cow from Teshio town in northern Hokkaido prefecture (state) was infected with the brain-wasting illness after analyzing samples taken this past week, the Agriculture Ministry said in a statement.

"All meat, internal organs and parts from this cattle will be incinerated, and there is no danger that they will be circulated in the market," the ministry statement said.

Eating beef from an infected cow is thought to cause the fatal human variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Older cattle are considered more vulnerable to the disease.

Tokyo has checked every slaughtered cow before it enters the food supply since 2001, after its first discovery of mad cow disease, known formally as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE.

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[Bommer]

Funny since they still don't want to import American Beef. Eat up!

[Iowa Granny]

Even funnier, because nobody is going to fund MC with the naked eye using only a flashlight. Good Grief.

[Muleteam1]

>>"All meat, internal organs and parts from this cattle will be incinerated, and there is no danger that they will be circulated in the market," the ministry statement said.<<

I thought incineration was not an acceptable method for killing prions.

Muleteam1

[prairiebreeze]

bump for later read (hopefully!)

thanks