- ROME (AP) - A 7-year-old
cow from a breeding farm in northwestern Italy has tested positive for
mad-cow disease.
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- Those results bring to 122 the number of cases detected
in Italy since testing began in 2001, the Health Ministry said yesterday.
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- The confirmation of the disease in the animal from Cuneo,
an area about 45 miles south of Turin, was Italy's fifth confirmed case
this year.
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- The European Union requires tests on cattle older than
30 months destined for slaughter.
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- Mad-cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy,
eats holes in cattle brains and is incurable.
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- Two years ago, Italy reported its first case of the human
form of the brain-wasting illness, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which
experts believe is transmitted by eating meat from infected animals.
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