Billings Gazette

Japan confirms first case of human mad cow disease

TOKYO — Japan confirmed its first human case of mad cow disease Friday following the death of a man who had symptoms of the fatal brain wasting illness. Health Ministry officials and experts from a ...
Southeast Missourian

First suspected Asian case of mad cow found in Japan

TOKYO -- Japan may have Asia's first case of mad cow disease, the government said Monday, citing tainted feed from Europe as a possible cause. Initial tests on the brain of a cow in Chiba prefecture ...
News on 6

MAD COW Disease Reported in Japan

TOKYO, Japan -- Japanese officials say they have found the country's first known case of mad cow disease. Japan's agriculture ministry said on Monday a cow has tested positive for mad cow disease in ...
Lincoln Journal Star

Japan confirms mad cow disease case

TOKYO Japan confirmed its first human case of mad cow disease Friday following the death of a man who had symptoms of the fatal brain wasting illness. Health Ministry officials and experts from a ...
Houston Chronicle

Mad cow disease in Japan is first Asian case

TOKYO - A dairy cow has tested positive for mad cow disease in the Chiba area of Japan, near Tokyo, the agriculture ministry said today, signalling the first case reported in Asia. However, ministry ...
Billings Gazette

Japan confirms new case of mad cow disease

TOKYO (AP) — Japan has confirmed a new case of mad cow disease, the third discovery of the brain-wasting illness in the country this year, an official said Monday. The 5-year-old dairy cow tested ...