Article: British scientists say further testing needed to determine if goat died of mad cow disease


AP Worldstream
02-08-2005
Dateline: LONDON
A goat that died in Scotland 15 years ago may have had mad cow disease, British scientists said Tuesday.

More testing was required to determine if the goat _ which had been diagnosed with scrapie, a wasting disease found in sheep and goats _ was actually suffering from bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as mad cow disease, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said.

Department scientists carried out tests on a stored sample of tissue from the dead goat, following the discovery of BSE in a goat in France last month _ the first known case of the fatal brain-wasting disease in a type of livestock other than cattle.

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