Mad cow disease has been found in a goat, the first time the brain-wasting affliction that ravaged European cattle herds and killed at least 100 people has been diagnosed in another animal, the EU said on Friday."A suspected case of BSE in a goat slaughtered in France in 2002 has been confirmed today by a panel of European scientists,” the EU Commission said in a statement.Scientists initially thought the animal, born in 2000, had scrapie, a brain-wasting disease from the same family as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the formal name for mad cow disease.
