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Wednesday April 19, 6:23 PM

Japan confirms 25th cow tested positive for mad cow disease

(Kyodo) _ An expert panel of Japan's health ministry confirmed Wednesday that a dairy cow raised in western Japan has tested positive for mad cow disease, making it the 25th case of BSE in Japan, ministry officials said.

The 6-year-old Holstein, raised at a farm in Nagi, Okayama Prefecture, had tested positive in an earlier preliminary blanket test.

 


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