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August 27, 2000
Two New Cases of Mad Cow Disease Discovered in France
PARIS (AP) _ Two new cases of so-called mad cow disease have been discovered in northwestern France, local officials said, raising the total number of cases detected in the country this year to 40. The two animals found to be infected were born in 1994 and 1995. French law requires that the animals and the herds they belong to be slaughtered and incinerated. French authorities last year discovered 31 cases of mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy. The disease is believed to cause a similar brain-wasting ailment in humans known as Creutzfeld-Jacob disease. New cases of the disease are expected to break out in France until 2002, five years after authorities took rigorous measures to prevent more outbreaks. The disease has an average incubation period of five years.

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