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Norway detects "probable" case of mad cow disease

The strain of the disease is different to the one found during the British 1990s epidemic.

NORWAY SAID TODAY it had detected a “probable” case of mad cow disease but urged consumers not to panic as it may not be the same variant as the British 1990s epidemic.

A second positive test for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) on a 15-year-old cow reinforced suspicions that it had mad cow disease, the Norwegian Veterinary Institute said.

“We have a likely and strong suspicion of a possible variant of BSE,” Bjoern Roethe Knudtsen of the Food and Safety Authority told public broadcaster NRK.

The authorities however said there was a distinction between the type of BSE caused by cows eating meat-based feed — banned in Europe since 2001 after the British epidemic — and an atypical version which has sporadically appeared in older cows in several European countries in recent years.

A definitive diagnosis can only be made by a European reference laboratory in Britain.

“We take this seriously and we are handling it as if our suspicion were confirmed,” Food and Safety Authority official Solfrid Aamdal said in a statement.

The authority stressed that “more and more” BSE cases in Europe are of the atypical kind and that beef and milk consumption remains safe.

The cow’s carcass, from a farm in west-central Norway, was destroyed and safety measures put in place for the rest of the herd.

- © AFP, 2015

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    Mute Phil O' Meara
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    Jun 18th 2015, 8:27 PM

    What? Again! This Oldest Person in the World title is nothing but a poisoned chalice…..

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    Mute Rashers Tierney
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    Jun 18th 2015, 8:42 PM

    Phil, that really was a cracker – kudos :-D

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    Jun 18th 2015, 8:32 PM

    Kathleen looks phenomenal for 113! She looks better than I do manys a Sunday morning!

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    Jun 19th 2015, 12:28 AM

    And you’re only 109!

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    Mute Glenard
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    Jun 18th 2015, 8:29 PM

    Spanning 3 centuries.
    RIP

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    Jun 18th 2015, 9:39 PM

    Can’t be many left to do so. RIP

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    Jun 18th 2015, 10:06 PM

    Just two people left who were born in the 1800′s, I am not a sentimental person but I think it’s a wonderful thing that they are still with us. When the last one dies I hope it will be treated as an extraordinary human event.

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    Jun 18th 2015, 8:39 PM

    Actually the world’s oldest person is still alive, but that distinction is no longer held by Jerlean Talley.

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    Mute Shawn Rahoon
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    Jun 18th 2015, 9:53 PM

    The world’s oldest person will never die!

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    Mute Paul P O'Sullivan
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    Jun 18th 2015, 9:00 PM

    Pretty soon there won’t be any person on Earth left who was born in the 19th Century

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    Mute Martin Harte
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    Jun 18th 2015, 9:01 PM

    I bet she has seen some great things in her lifetime

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    Jun 18th 2015, 9:26 PM

    rip , the history that woman seen is unbelievable…

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    Jun 18th 2015, 9:26 PM

    Meh… I’ve woke up with worse!

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    Mute Neal Ireland Hello
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    Jun 19th 2015, 3:30 AM

    This is very disheartening but predictable.

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    Mute M
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    Jun 19th 2015, 3:21 AM

    Jaysus theres people dying now never died before.

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    Mute Sean Reynolds
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    Jun 19th 2015, 9:56 AM

    Yep, it’s a bit morbid keeping tabs on the super-centenarians, but it is interesting to note that we shall soon approach the point where the eldest person on the planet will have been born in the 20th century. There will be nobody left who was born in the late 1800′s.

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    Jun 19th 2015, 4:21 AM

    I bet she was a smoker !!

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    Jun 19th 2015, 10:53 AM

    Gone too soon.

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