政府部门说，这头牛为荷兰种奶牛，年龄为1岁11个月，在东京北部的茨城县被发现患有一种不同寻常的脑虚损病，即通常所称的牛海绵体病(疯牛病)。

• The ministry said on Monday that the 23-month-old Holstein cow in Ibaraki prefecture, north of Tokyo, had an "unusual" form of the brain-wasting ailment, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).