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Probe launched after mad cow disease turns up in Japan ASSOCIATED PRESS The emergency inspection began Wednesday and is slated to TOKYO — Thousands of health last through Sept. 30, It is aimed at officials have launched a nation­ finding clinical symptoms linked wide search for mad cow disease to mad cow disease in the cattle, following the discovery of Japan’s Oda said. first suspected case earlier this week, a government official said Mad cow disease, or bovine yesterday. spongiform encephalopathy, is About 5.800 officials were con­ thought to cause the fatal variant ducting inspections at 140,000 Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in hu­ farms, said Shigeki Oda, an offi­ mans who eat infected beef. CJD cial with the Agriculture Minis­ kills its victims by tearing holes in try’s animal health division. their brain tissue. The probe comes after Japan on Monday reported that a five-year- old Holstein milk cow on a farm in Chiba state, just east of Tokyo, tested positive for mad cow dis­ ease, as BSE is commonly known. The cow was slaughtered. No other cases of mad cow dis­

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