date:Feb 27, 2014
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) has struck again in Germany, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has reported.
The notification takes the German BSE tally to two with both animals coming from farms lying in eastern Brandenburg, close to the Polish border.
Specialist have emphasised that the atypical type of the disease is not associated with feeding and that neither cows threatened human health via the food chain due to detection and destruction.
National BSE Surveillance ef