BSE: Twenty years old
Twenty years ago, a paper appeared in the Veterinary Record recording a new disease in dairy cattle. The syndrome had been seen in cattle in England for a couple of years but with the publication of the paper by Wells and others, the disease was described and named, and the new term bovine spongiform encephalopathy…
Origins of BSE?
The recent publication of a paper describing an atypical form of BSE, referred to as ‘bovine amyloidotic spongiform encephalopathy’ (BASE) could help in explaining the mystery of the origin of the BSE epidemic. This different type of BSE was identified in two cattle, aged 11 and 15 years, in Italy, and a similar strain of…