The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has reportedly confirmed the country's 10th case of mad cow disease since 2003. The diseased dairy cow was found in the western province of British Columbia.

Authorities on Wednesday confirmed that no part of the animal entered the human food or animal feed systems and its carcass is under CFIA control. According to preliminary information, the agency is speculating that the 5 1/2-year-old cow was infected during its first year of life

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has detected a new case of mad cow disease in a bull at Alberta, Canada under the national Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) surveillance program. Though this is the ninth case of mad cow in the country since May 2003, the authorities have confirmed that none of the animal has entered the food chain yet. All the animals are believed to have contracted the disease from contaminated feed.

BSE - commonly known as mad cow disease, is a fatal disease that causes progressive neurological degeneration in cattle. Similar to BSE, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare disease that occurs in humans. In 1996, following outbreaks of BSE among British cattle, scientists found a possible link between BSE and a new variant of CJD (vCJD). While it is not certain how BSE may be spread to humans, evidence indicates that humans may acquire vCJD after consuming BSE-contaminated cattle products

Researchers across the United States have reportedly found a way to tackle the Mad Cow disease by genetically engineered cattle. These cattle have immunity against bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or Mad Cow disease, thus helping eliminate the disease if consumers are ready to accept genetically engineered cattle.

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) commonly known as mad cow disease, is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle. It also adversely affected the country's agriculture industry as many countries banned the imports of cattle from U.S. due to this disease

Japan's Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry on Monday confirmed that a five-year-and-four-month-old female cow, which died last week in northern Japan, has tested positive for mad cow disease. The discovery brings to 30 the number of confirmed bovine spongiform encephalopathy cases in Japan.

Reports say the cow was born in June 2001 before the implementation of a ban on meat-and-bone meal which is suspected of being the cause of the brain-wasting disease. The cow was traced on a farm in Chitose, Hokkaido prefecture, it was said

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirms mad cow disease has been found in Alberta province.

It is Canada's eighth case of mad cow disease since 2003, and the fifth case this year