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| Title: | Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) |
| Authors: | Food Safety Advisory Board
Department of Health (DOH) |
| Publisher: | Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) |
| Issue Date: | 10-Apr-1996 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10147/243757 |
| Type: | Report |
| Language: | en |
| Description: | Bovine spongiform encapholapathy(BSE) is one of a number of transmissible
spongiform encephalopathies which affect animals. Members of this group of
encephalopathies are linked by common features such as prolonged incubation periods
often extending to years. progressive neurological signs ending in death and the
production of characteristic spongiform changes in the brain.
BSE is a fatal disease of the nervous system of cattle and was first confirmed as an
entity in Great Britain in 1985 and in Ireland in 1989. It is caused by a transmissible
agent which has been detected In brain and spiral cord of naturally affected animal and in retina and distalileum of experimentally affected animals but not in other
tissues from clinically affected animals. It shares characteristics with 1 group of
transmissible spongiforn encephalopathies both human and animal (see Table I).
Transmissibility in this context is defined in terms of experimental transmission and
should nor be taken to signify that the disease is proven to be transmitted to animals
of the same or different species under natural conditions. |
| Keywords: | FOOD SAFETY
DISEASE |
| Appears in Collections: | FSAI
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