Japan Confirms 26th Mad Cow Disease Case (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) TOKYO (AP) - Japan has confirmed its 26th case of mad cow disease, this one in a 5-year-old Holstein in the country's north, the Agriculture Ministry said Saturday. Meat inspectors in the northern state of Hokkaido found Thursday that a dairy cow tested positive for the disease, the ministry said in a statement. A panel of Agriculture Ministry experts confirmed the infection Saturday, according [News Source]

Japan Confirms 26th Mad Cow Disease Case (ABC News) Japan Confirms 26th Mad Cow Disease Case; Agriculture Ministry Confirms Infection [News Source]

Japan Confirms 26th Mad Cow Disease Case (AP via Yahoo! News) Japan has confirmed its 26th case of mad cow disease, this one in a 5-year-old Holstein in the country's north, the Agriculture Ministry said Saturday. [News Source]

Japan reports 26th case of mad cow disease (People’s Daily) A 5-year and 8-month-old dairy cow raised in northern Japan was confirmed to have contracted the mad cow disease, the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said Saturday. [News Source]

Japan confirms mad cow case (NDTV) Japan has confirmed its 26th case of mad cow disease in a five-year-old Holstein, the Agriculture Ministry said on Saturday. Meat inspectors in Hokkaido prefecture in northern Japan found that the dairy cow had tested positive for the disease, the Ministry said in a statement. [News Source]

Cow in Japan’s Hokkaido Tested Positive for Mad Cow Disease (Bloomberg.com) May 13 (Bloomberg) -- A cow in Japan's northern Hokkaido prefecture was confirmed as the country's 26th case of mad cow disease, the country's agriculture ministry said. [News Source]

Japan confirms 26th case of mad cow disease (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News) _ The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries announced on Saturday that a dairy cow raised in Hokkaido has tested positive for mad cow disease, making it the 26th case in Japan. [News Source]

Some ranchers shy on first day since mad cow announcement (AG Weekly) TULIA, Texas -- West Texas rancher Kevin Crooks lost about $1 million in the year following the country's first case of mad cow 18 months ago. If he'd had cattle big enough to sell at the Tulia Livestock Auction on Monday, he wouldn't have brought a one. [News Source]