There have been a total of ten incidents of BSE reported by the Department of Agriculture this week, with the Department describing the underlying trend as "favourable".
Of the ten, four are active cases while the remaining six are passive, bringing the total number of BSE cases for 2001 to 210.
The age profile of the BSE cases continues to show that the additional control measures, which were introduced in 1996 and 1997, are proving effective, the Department says.
To date no animals born after 1996 have been detected with BSE and an ever increasing proportion of infected animals are six years of age or older.
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The cases were detected in counties Cork, Galway, Cavan, Waterford, Meath, Louth Westmeath, Monaghan, Wexford and Kilkenny.