The Finnish government confirmed on Wednesday the discovery of a new scrapie case after a sheep on a farm in the west of the country was diagnosed with the brain-wasting illness similar to mad cow disease.

The sheep, which died last week, is the third scrapie case to be found so far in Finland. All 200 sheep on the affected farm have been culled, the Finnish Agriculture and Forestry Ministry said in a statement.

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