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The potential size and duration of an epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in British sheep.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 11 Jan 2002
Kao R R, Gravenor M B, Baylis M, Bostock C J, Chihota C M, Evans J C, Goldmann W, Smith A J A, McLean A R
Abstract excerpt
Because there is a theoretical possibility that the British national sheep flock is infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), we examined the extent of a putative epidemic. An age cohort analysis based on numbers of infected cattle, dose responses of cattle and sheep to BSE, levels of exposure to infected feed, and number of BSE-susceptible sheep in the United Kingdom showed that at the putative...
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