A case of mad cow disease (BSE) has been discovered on a cattle farm in the south west of England. The animal has been removed from the company. There would be no food safety hazard.
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That writes the British media website The Guardian. According to chief veterinarian Christine Middlemiss, the animal came to the surface during a standard checkup. “This is proof that our surveillance system for detecting and controlling this type of disease is working.” According to her, it is a traumatic time for the farmer in question who owns a business in Somerset. ‘We are ready to give advice during this difficult period.’
Since 2014, five cases of BSE have been confirmed in the UK. In all cases, these were animals that were not destined for the human food chain.
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) is a slow-moving disease of the central nervous system in cattle that ultimately leads to death. It is suspected that the BSE epidemic in Great Britain at the end of the last century gave rise to a new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
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