From the 1990s, Europe introduced a slew of measures to counter the spread of the illness including banning animal cereals, tougher surveillance of cross-contaminations and destruction of the highest risk tissues, thereby eventually bringing the spread under control. — Reuters pic
Researchers injected a particular scrapie variant into mice, producing the prion of bovine origin following genetic manipulation. “For the first time, these data bring an experimentally underpinned explanation to the appearance” of mad cow disease in the UK in the 1980s.
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