Spain hopes to eliminate 'Mad Cow' disease by 2010
Spain hopes to eliminate mad cow disease from the country by 2010, the country's top veterinary officer announced last Friday.
With 668 cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, known popularly as Mad Cow Disease, reported in the country since 2000, Spain is currently ranked No. 4 in terms of BSE "prevalence" in Europe, said Juan Jose Badiola, president of the College of Veterinarians.
The vet added that although since 2003 the number of cases had been dropping, with only 55 reported so far this year that he wants it to be "totally eradicated in four or five years."
A third of incidences of BSE in Spain occur in the rainy lush pastures of Galicia, in the northwest.
