18ième cas de vache folle au canada

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cette nouvelle ne paraït encore nulle part dans les journaux francophones canadiens...



Alberta dairy cow found with mad cow disease

By Rod Nickel | Reuters – Fri, 4 Mar, 2011 10:05 AM EST
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Canadian government officials have found a dairy
cow in Alberta with mad cow disease, but the finding is not surprising and
shouldn't affect beef exports, a spokesman for the Canadian Food Inspection
Agency said on Friday.

The agency confirmed the case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE as the
disease is also known, on February 18 in a 77-month-old dairy cow, spokesman Guy
Gravelle said.

In 2003, the first discovery of a cow in Canada with the disease led to closures
of numerous export markets to Canadian beef. Most have reopened, other than
South Korea and China, and importers are no longer as sensitive to new cases as
countries such as Canada now have monitoring systems in place.

Canada continues to be rated a "controlled risk" for the disease by the World
Organization for Animal Health, Gravelle said. The newest case may delay any
upgrade to Canada's international risk status as a country cannot apply for
negligible status sooner than 11 years after the latest-born case.

The cow has been destroyed and no part of its carcass entered the human food or
animal feed systems, Gravelle said.

The case, which is believed to be Canada's 18th, should not affect exports of
Canadian cattle or beef, he said, as a small number of BSE cases are expected as
Canada monitors for the disease.

(Reporting by Rod Nickel; Editing by Walter Bagley)