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Emerging Infectious Disease Network
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE)

The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Reference Library is a collaborative initiative of international veterinary, medical and scientific experts to share information and enhance academic discussion of emerging infectious diseases and issues associated with preparedness,  response, mitigation and policy. ..

Contact:

Stephen M. Apatow
Founder, Director of Research & Development
Humanitarian Resource Institute (UN:NGO:DESA)
Humanitarian University Consortium Graduate Studies
Center for Medicine, Veterinary Medicine & Law
Phone: 203-668-0282
Email: s.m.apatow@humanitarian.net
Internet: www.humanitarian.net


Pathobiologics International
Internet: www.pathobiologics.org
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In the Spotlight The GNN article speculates that the chance of developing a human prion disease in any form is less than one in a million. This statistic is being challenged by research at Yale University (Medline) that found 13 percent of Alzheimer's patients actually had CJD and potential association with BSE prion propagation as either variant CJD-like or sporadic CJD-like prion strains (demonstrated in transgenic mice expressing human prion protein).

For additional information on genomics research, visit the HRI Bioinformatics: Pathological Diagnostics web site.

Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

  • Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Mad Cow Disease): FAO recommends precautions FAO estimates that between 1986-96 up to today, meat and bone meal (MBM) from Europe was exported to more than 100 countries. Around 100 countries imported live cattle. Some countries also re-exported MBM to third countries. All countries which have imported cattle or meat and bone meal that originated from Western Europe, during and since the 1980s, can be therefore considered at risk from the disease. Regions that have imported sizeable quantities of meat meal from the UK during and since the 1980s include the Near East, Eastern Europe and Asia.
TSE Educational Resources: General Veterinary Research & Publications General Information: Emerging Infectious Diseases
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