Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (B.S.E.)

A new disease?

Authors

  • P. J. N. Pinsent Saxon Place, Langford, Bristol, England

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21423/bovine-vol0no23p97-98

Keywords:

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Brain, cattle diseases, Nervous system diseases, Pathology

Abstract

This disease is probably a genuinely new disease. It apparently only exists in Great Britain, and it seems unlikely that it was present in this country before 1984. It is a slowly progressive encephalopathy of adult cattle producing, microscopically, a spongiform appearance of sections of brain tissue. It runs a relatively lengthy course which invariably ends in death. It is probably due to an “unconventional viral” agent similar to that of scrapie.

Cover image of the 23rd Volume of the Bovine Practitioner: a view of Stampede Park in downtown Calgary framed by one curving wing of the Scotiabank Saddledome.

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Published

1988-11-01

How to Cite

Pinsent, P. J. N. (1988). Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (B.S.E.): A new disease?. The Bovine Practitioner, (23), 97–98. https://doi.org/10.21423/bovine-vol0no23p97-98

Issue

No. 23 (1988 November)

Section

Articles