Press Release: Commission submits French Research Findings on TSE in a goat to Expert Panel

Following the findings by a research group in France that they suspected the presence of a TSE infection in a goat's brain which tests cannot distinguish from BSE, the European Commission submitted data received from the French authorities to the Community Reference Laboratory (CRL) for TSEs based in Weybridge, England, for an evaluation by an expert panel. TSEs are transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, namely BSE affecting cattle, and scrapie affecting goats and sheep.

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European Commission: MEMO: MEMO/04/247 http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/04/247&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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