Stephen Cadogan: Blip in Ireland’s huge BSE elimination progress
If the case is confirmed, it is only a blip in the huge progress made in Ireland over many years towards eradicating this disease from the national cattle herd.
Contaminated meat and bone meal in feed triggered the disease in the UK in the late 1980s. It peaked in the UK at 37,280 in 1992, with about 180,000 cases in total (and 177 recorded cases of variant CJD in humans, likely to be due to eating beef).
