- TOKYO - Japan confirms 12th
case of mad cow disease (AP) - Japan has confirmed a 12th case of mad cow
disease, an official said Monday - the third case of the brain-wasting
illness in the country this year.
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- The five-year-old dairy cow tested positive for the disease
formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, on Friday at
a slaughterhouse in Shisui town in southern Kumamoto prefecture, spokesman
official Toshinori Takano said.
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- More precise tests at a state-run infectious disease
research institute confirmed the finding on Monday, Mr. Takano said.
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- The animal's meat and organs had not gone on the market,
and its carcass will be incinerated, he said.
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- Japan's first case of mad cow disease - in September
2001 - was the first case outside of Europe, where it devastated cattle
farms.
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- Within months of that case, the government banned the
use of meat-and-bone meal - made from ruminant animal parts - in cattle
feed, which authorities believe led to the outbreak.
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- The country's most recent confirmed case was in March.
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