Tough times for Japan
11 November 2003
Japan confirmed its ninth case of BSE on Tuesday, 4 November. The animal, a 21-month-old Holstein steer, was born on 13 January 2002 in the Hyogo Prefecture and raised in Fukuyama before being slaughtered in Hiroshima. This is the first case of BSE in the western part of Japan. Two cases of Scrapie were also confirmed in Japan late last week. The two ewes were located on a farm in the Hokkaido Prefecture. This recent outbreak comes just over a month after the previous outbreak, when a three year-old Suffolk ewe was diagnosed with Scrapie in the same region. Source: Meat and Livestock Australia
