New achievements in transmission of BSE

Introduction: British infectious disease experts say that if mad cow disease can be transmitted from cattle to sheep and then to people, then the risk of the British public suffering from the new Creutzfeldt Jakob disease due to eating mutton products will be greater than eating beef However, there is no evidence that BSE can be transmitted to sheep The analysis is only a theoretical hypothesis According to media reports here, the FSA does not currently recommend that the public refuse to eat mutton, and the public need not panic Scientists at Imperial College London used experimental data on the transmission of mad cow disease to animals to build a computer model to predict the best and worst cases of mad cow disease in sheep and then infected people According to their analysis, the possibility of large-scale outbreaks of new Creutzfeldt Jakob disease due to mutton products cannot be ruled out; if mad cow disease can be transmitted to sheep, the number of people who will eventually die of new Creutzfeldt Jakob disease in the UK will reach 150000 But they also reminded that there are too many hypothetical links in the relevant analysis Mad cow disease may not be able to infect sheep, even if it can be transmitted, it may not be able to spread naturally between sheep and sheep, or it may not be able to further infect people These uncertain factors need further experimental data to test Scientists say the significance of their research lies in the analysis and prediction method used, which can be used to better predict the epidemic situation when reliable data are available in the future The British government has invested in a five-year, costly project to study whether mad cow disease can be transmitted to sheep In 2001, researchers reported that there was such a risk This almost caused a new round of food panic in the UK But the repeated test found that the sheep brain used in the experiment was mixed with the brain tissue of cattle, so the results were not credible (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: