Mad Cow Disease Detected In Goat For First Time
"If it's in a goat.. should it not be called mad goat disease?"
A goat in France that was slaughtered in 2002 had mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the European Union confirmed.
The positive test results were announced Friday by the EU more than two years after testing the remains of the French goat. Scientists initially believed the goat was infected with scrapie, a disease in the BSE family.
Consuming contaminated products from animals infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), has been scientificly linked to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans.
Full Story @ Healthtalk
Posted by Muddy at January 29, 2005 02:51 PM | TrackBackNo, it should be called "scrapie."
You might be entertained to see my blog, "murky thoughts." It seems we're living in parallel universes.