Japan is testing for the fifth possible case of BSE
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Last Update: 2002-08-26
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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Lead: new page 1 a local government spokesman said Thursday that preliminary examination of a slaughtered cow near Tokyo showed that it may have mad cow disease If f8t is confirmed by the re examination results, it will be the fifth case of BSE found in Japan The local government has sent tissue samples from the six-year-old cow to a National Research Institute for retest, the shennai County spokesman said A spokesman for the f8t Institute said it would take one to two days for such a test to produce results The first case of mad cow disease discovered by f8t in Japan last year has brought a great impact on the food industry in Japan Consumers' interest in eating beef has been greatly reduced, and restaurants and food packaging industry have suffered a huge loss F8t BSE has been confirmed to be directly linked to human Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (vCJD) More than 100 people have died of the disease in Europe, but there is no such case in Japan F8t
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