The Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture confirms two cases of mad cow and suspends exports to China

Published 2021년 9월 4일

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Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture has reported two cases of atypical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE or 'mad cow disease'), in slaughterhouses in Nova Canaã do Norte and Belo Horizonte. Despite these cases, the ministry assures there is no risk to human and animal health. These cases, the fourth and fifth in over 23 years, have led to the temporary suspension of beef exports to China. The exports to China this year have reached US$ 3.545 billion. The disease, which affects the nervous system of older cows, is caused by an infectious protein in the brain, and cannot be transmitted from one cow to another.

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The Ministry of Agriculture confirmed this Saturday the occurrence of two atypical cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), known as mad cow disease. As a result, the Brazilian government decided to temporarily suspend beef exports to China. The mad cow cases were confirmed in slaughterhouses in Nova Canaã do Norte (MT) and Belo Horizonte. risk were completed even before the issuance of the final result by the reference laboratory of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) in Alberta, Canada. Therefore, there is no risk to human and animal health”, says the note in the folder. These are the fourth and fifth cases of atypical mad cow registered in more than 23 years of surveillance for the disease. Brazil has never registered the occurrence of cases of classic mad cow, according to Agriculture. Cases of atypical mad cow occur because of a mutation in a single animal. The classic cases, when the animal is contaminated because of its feeding, could affect more than one ...

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