Mad cow disease jumps to goats

From: habshi (habshi_at_anony.com)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 00:05:03 GMT

'Mad cow' disease found in goat
 
Goat meat is subject to the same strict controls as beef
A French goat has tested positive for mad cow disease - the first
animal in the world other than a cow to have bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (BSE).
The European Commission says further testing will be done to see if
the incidence is an isolated one.

The animal, which was slaughtered in 2002, was initially thought to
have scrapie, a similar brain-wasting condition sometimes seen in
goats.

But British scientists have now confirmed the disease was in fact BSE.

More than 100 people in the UK have died from vCJD (variant
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease), the human form of BSE, after eating
tainted beef.

But the EC stressed on Friday that precautionary measures put in place
in recent years to protect the human food chain from contaminated
meats meant there was no need for alarm over the latest finding.

 

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