Three new cases of BSE were found in the national herd during June, the Department of Agriculture and Food announced yesterday.
The three cases bring to 39 the total of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy recorded since the beginning of the year, seven more than in the corresponding period last year. It also means that 391 cases have now been found in the Republic since the disease was first detected here in 1989.
The new cases were on dairy farms in Wexford, Clare and Cork, and the Wexford and Cork animals were only four years old. The other animal was six.
