37 cattle will be destroyed in Japan due to the panic of mad cow disease
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Last Update: 2002-09-10
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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Lead: Tokyo, Sept 6 - according to Kyodo news, Japan's Kanagawa local government said Friday (Sept 6) that 37 cattle from the farm where the fifth case of mad cow disease was found last month in the region may be insane and need to be destroyed According to the report, the local government said that the 37 cattle came from a herd of 47 cattle They were fed the same feed as the one with BSE After BSE detection, they must be burned instead of entering the market Most of the cattle in the farm are believed to have been burned to death due to mad cow disease However, when the first four BSE positive cases were found, no other cattle were killed The area is close to Tokyo and efforts are under way to detect if 165 cattle sold in the farm between 1994 and 2002 had BSE Officials say a study from Japan's Ministry of agriculture, forestry and Fisheries confirmed that the first four Holstein cows diagnosed with BSE were fed the same milk substitute This milk substitute is produced in a feed factory of "scientific feed experiment company" in Takasaki, central Japan It is a subsidiary of the national agricultural cooperation Federation and is called Zen Noh in Japan However, the Department of agriculture did not confirm whether the BSE infection was caused by that feed The fifth case of BSE was found in Japan on August 22 (author:) share to feed Weibo share to:
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