AFTER years of ignoring warnings that mad cows were probably lurking in their
herds, Germany and Spain both admitted last week that they have found
native-born cases of BSE. The admissions came days after the European Union
announced BSE tests across the continent to reveal the true extent of the
epidemic.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ went to press, one cow in Spain’s north-western
region of Galicia had been diagnosed with BSE, and another was suspected. An
abattoir in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which was voluntarily
conducting BSE tests, discovered infection in one cow. And a cow exported from
another German…
