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Separating the environmental and genetic factors that may be causes of bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 29 Jul 1996
Hau C M, Curnow R N
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The initial cause of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) epidemic is generally accepted to have been the feeding of infected animal protein to cattle. The proportion of animals affected in any year in a particular herd has generally been low. This suggests either considerable variation in the extent of challenge of the individual animals or variation in their susceptibility to challenge or both. There is...
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