BSE - PORTUGAL
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A ProMED-mail post
Date: 13 Jan 1999
From: Celia Feipel
Source: News agency [edited]
Portugal reports 21 mad cow cases in December
05:48 a.m. Jan 13, 1999 Eastern
Lisbon newspapers Diario Economico and Publico reported on Wednesday
that Portugal had a further 21 cases of "mad cow disease'' [Bovine
Spongiform Encephalopathy, BSE] in December, 1998. Those 21 cases push
Portugal's total since 1990 to 195, including 104 in 1998. In
November, [a government spokesman] said that there had been flaws in
sanitary controls to prevent the spread of BSE in Portugal.
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ProMED-mail
[The results of lax sanitation when dealing with BSE can be very
frightening, since BSE has been linked to the new variant form of
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in people. Let us hope that all countries
maintain tight sanitation controls - Mod.TG]
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