- AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A cow
from a farm near Utrecht has been discovered to have mad cow disease in
the seventh case of BSE in the Netherlands, the Dutch Agriculture Ministry
announced late on Thursday.
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- The cow, named 'Geertje', will be part of a group of
61 cows that will be destroyed and their corpses burned on Friday.
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- Cattle born on the same farm and in the same year as
Geertje will also be slaughtered and their bodies investigated, the ministry
said.
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- The last case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)
in the Netherlands was more than a year and a half ago. The first Dutch
case occurred in March 1997.
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- Recent consumer panic over mad cow disease and its link
to a fatal brain-wasting disease in humans led France to ban the sale of
beef-on-the-bone and suspend the use of animal feed products on Tuesday.
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