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Mad Cow Disease Kills Two in Spain
April 08, 2008 at 11:28 AM
Tropical Disease News
Spain's food security agency, AESA, said the two were a woman aged 51 and a man of 41.
The health ministry said their deaths were only now being reported because post-mortem testing for the disease is a lengthy process.
"There may possibly be more cases in the European Union but always as a consequence of what happened over a decade ago," it said in the statement.
Britain has been the epicentre of mad cow disease, with tens of thousands of cases in the early 1990s. That figure dropped sharply after stringent culling procedures were adopted in 1996.
Spain has been relatively unscathed by the disease, with 325 animals infected between 2000 and 2003.
The first case of the disease was detected in Spain in November 2001. The following year consumption of beef dropped in Spain while chicken and fish sales soared. Exports of Spanish beef were also hurt.
Shares in Spain's largest fish processor, Pescanova, soared on Monday as the market anticipated a rise in fish consumption in the wake of the two new deaths from the human form of mad cow disease.
Source-AFP
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