Netherlands has BSE case

Amsterdam - The Dutch government said yesterday it had discovered its eighth case of mad cow disease at a farm in the eastern…

Amsterdam - The Dutch government said yesterday it had discovered its eighth case of mad cow disease at a farm in the eastern town of Punthorst.

It said it would inform the EU and that the farm's remaining cows will be examined for the brain-wasting bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) disease, known as mad cow disease.