The first case of BSE in German cattle (11.28)

OA show ('918 '); according to a recent report on German television, a local born cow was found suffering from mad cow disease in the northern German state of Shihe and Saxon Anhalt, which is the first time that Germany has recognized that the native born cattle in Germany suffer from mad cow disease The report said shihezhou used a rapid test to find out that the 1996 born cow had mad cow disease The Saxe Anhalt cattle was born in 1995 and exported to Portugal in 1998, where it was recently found to have mad cow disease The news that cattle born in Germany were found to have mad cow disease shocked the whole country "Now the myth that" there is no mad cow disease in German cattle "has been completely broken," said German health minister Fischer She called on all parties concerned to respond promptly A spokesman for Germany's Ministry of Agriculture said the government and state authorities would hold an emergency meeting to discuss countermeasures According to another report, German Prime Minister Gerhard Schroeder immediately stopped using "animal powder" as feed after learning the news of BSE in his country This kind of feed is considered to be an important cause of BSE because the meat of diseased animals is used as additive in the process of processing China feed industry information network 4em (author:)