Many experts noticed early on how BSE bore a close resemblance to a well-known fatal disease in sheep and goats, called ...

It is likely that sheep will have eaten the contaminated meat and bone meal which caused BSE in cattle in the early 1990s. The FSA, however, stresses that at this stage there is no reason for ...

The reintroduction of processed animal protein (PAP) into some livestock feed is on the cards, with Defra now considering ...

Germany unveiled plans to slaughter and burn 400,000 cattle in response ... four years after the UK imposed a total ban. Ministers had claimed their country was free of BSE, despite warnings ...

More than 175,000 cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) have been diagnosed in cattle in the UK since 1986. The recognition during this time of previously unknown transmissible ...

In the 1990s, millions of cattle were culled across the UK during a classical BSE epidemic, linked to cattle eating rendered animal products contaminated with the BSE agent. Due to a ban in 1996 ...

Within weeks of the release of the report by the Phillips inquiry into the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis in the UK, concern about the zoonotic disease is spreading across Europe.

and added to cattle feed – could be to blame for the spread. Could feeding cows to cows be recycling the disease? Based on John’s evidence, three years after the first cases of BSE ...

In this particular case what is most surprising is that cattle in the region are only fed with grass. BSE or ‘mad cow’ emerged in the eighties in the UK in livestock fed on special rations ...

The cattle are at a good price there’s no doubt about that. It’s been 30 years since the BSE outbreak in the UK and we are really only just back to pre-BSE prices plus inflation. Mr Purves highlighted ...

TSEs include scrapie in sheep and goats, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle, chronic wasting ... The first case of BSE in the UK occurred in 1986 and since then there have been ...