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Infection known as mad cow disease found on Somerset farm
Officials say there is no current risk to public health from the infection, known as mad cow disease.
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Beef price must be to high again ....Infection known as mad cow disease found on Somerset farm
Officials say there is no current risk to public health from the infection, known as mad cow disease.www.bbc.co.uk
It's alright, as long as all the food she ate was RT assured, must just be staggers.
Oh dear, what if some of it was imported...................
This needs investigating ?!It's alright, as long as all the food she ate was RT assured, must just be staggers.
Oh dear, what if some of it was imported...................
Then wheel out Hugh PenningtonBeef price must be to high again ....
Wait for bbc to wheel out holstein cow falling over in the yard again !
He must be dead by now!Then wheel out Hugh Pennington
He still going. 83He must be dead by now!
This case was potentially linked to residual contaminated feed from a silo that had been in use since the early 1980s and was the most likely source of infection. This survey therefore hopes to establish whether you still use a silo, or any other container storing loose concentrated feedstuffs, that predates 1 August 1996 when the reinforced ban on feeding of processed animal protein to farmed animals was introduced.
Just goes to show why want to know how many old silos are kicking aboutFeed contaminated with old MBM from the 1980s seems to be the most likely route of exposure. MBM produced in the 1980s was highly infectious to cattle and available evidence suggests that infectivity is unlikely to be reduced by much over forty years due to the stability of the BSE agent. Calculations here show that even after 40 years, the residual BSE infectivity in MBM produced from the rendering of the brain or spinal cord (750 g) of just one BSE-infected cow with clinical signs from back in the 1980s could infect 2.2 cows if consumed in 2020 by a herd of cows.