Article
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
Revue scientifique et technique (International Office of Epizootics) - 1 Apr 2003
Prince M J, Bailey J A, Barrowman P R, Bishop K J, Campbell G R, Wood J M
Abstract excerpt
Early epidemiological studies identified bovine spongiform encephalopathy as a feed-borne infection associated with infected meat-and-bone meal in animal feed. The infection may have derived from scrapie in sheep, a spontaneous genetic mutation in cattle, or a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy in another mammalian species. Experimental work on the risk of transmission has necessarily tried to identify risk...
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