Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 23rd, 2006
According to a study from France, "Presence of scrapie infectivity in the placenta suggests the possibility of increased transmission of scrapie during the lambing season.
"This hypothesis was explored here using a mathematical model of scrapie transmission dynamics, which has previously been successfully used to study several scrapie outbreaks in Scottish sheep flocks."
"It was applied here to the Langlade experimental sheep flock (INRA Toulouse, France), in which a natural scrapie epidemic started in 1993. Extensive data were available, including pedigree, scrapie...
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