87th 'Mad Cow' Case Found in Italy

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87th 'Mad Cow' Case Found in Italy

A case of "mad cow" disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), has been detected near Cuneo, Italian health officials said Tuesday.

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A case of "mad cow" disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), has been detected near Cuneo, Italian health officials said Tuesday.

A positive field test was confirmed in Italy's main testing labin Turin, raising Italy's mad cow tally to 87.

Italy has so far carried out over 1 million tests for the brain-wasting disease since it launched a BSE testing program in January2001, in compliance with European Union regulations.

All animals over 24 months old now undergo such testing prior to slaughter.

A government task force was set up and BSE measures stepped up last February after the discovery of the first suspected case of the human form of the brain-wasting disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (vCJD), in a young Sicilian woman.

The case of vCJD was confirmed in November.

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