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But while scientists say the sheep did not have conventional BSE, they cannot rule out the possibility that it could have had a new form of mad cow disease that has adapted to sheep.
SHEEP fed BSE-infected cow brain have passed on the infection in blood transfusions to at least one other sheep, say British researchers. Although the findings are preliminary, they raise fears ...
Scientists believe that test results which sparked fears that a form of BSE, so-called "mad cow disease", had spread to British sheep are important but not conclusive.
Government scientists have found direct evidence to support the theory that the BSE epidemic was originally caused by feeding cattle the rendered carcasses of sheep infected with scrapie.
Resistance to transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) in sheep can be influenced by polymorphisms of the gene that encodes prion protein (PrP). In vitro conversion experiments showed that VRQ ...
Germany's agriculture minister has called for sheep to be tested for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease.
Germany's agriculture minister has called for sheep to be tested for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease.
The disease, formally called bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), is caused by an abnormal protein that destroys nervous system tissue and brings a slow and painful death as the brain and other ...
The risk to humans developing variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) could be far greater if the brain-wasting disease Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) has entered the sheep population ...
FRESH questions have been raised about whether BSE can pass to sheep after officials yesterday confirmed they had transferred the disease to an animal considered most resistant to it. It is the ...
The sheep form of TSE, scrapie, was first noted in the U.S. in the 1940s. So far, the U.S. has been free from the cattle version, BSE or mad cow disease. Detwiler’s job is to keep it that way.
European Union scientists are investigating the possibility of an epidemic of a BSE-type disease in the sheep population.