UK identifies case of ‘angry cow’ disease

British officials delight in identified a single case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), on the complete identified as angry cow disease.

The Animal and Plant Neatly being Agency (APHA) said this week that the tiresome animal had been eradicated from a farm in Somerset, southwest England, adding there used to be “no threat to food security“.

“The UK’s total threat space for BSE remains at ‘managed’ and there isn’t this kind of thing as a threat to food security or public properly being,” said Chief Veterinary Officer Christine Middlemiss.

APHA will birth a “thorough investigation of the herd, the premises, ability sources of an infection and must aloof produce a full file on the incident in due route”.

Five cases of BSE, which used to be linked to fatal human situation Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in individuals, delight in been identified in Britain since 2014.

Britain culled millions of cows right by technique of a deadly disease of the disease within the 1990s.

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