NR AESA
AU Goldwater,P.N.
TI Bovine spongiform encephalopathy and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: implications for Australia.
QU Medical Journal of Australia 2001 Aug 6; 175(3): 154-8
PT journal article; review; review, tutorial
AB The bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) epizootic developed in the United Kingdom in the mid-1980s. Feeding practices in the cattle industry amplified the causative prion, and meat contaminated with BSE entered the market. Human consumption of prion-contaminated meat led to the new zoonosis - variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). The UK BSE Inquiry published its report in October 2000; while praising policy decisions, it also documented failures in the execution of these policies, specifically delays and lack of rigour. Australia is in an excellent position to maintain its BSE- and scrapie-free status, but widespread active surveillance of neural and non-neural tissue from all species of farmed quadrupeds is needed.
ZR 33
MH Animal; Australia; Cattle; Cattle Diseases/diagnosis/prevention & control/*transmission; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/diagnosis/prevention & control/*transmission; *Disease Outbreaks; Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform/diagnosis/prevention &; control/*transmission; Food Contamination; Human; Meat/virology; Mutation; Nerve Tissue Proteins/genetics; Prions/genetics; Risk Factors
AD Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, The Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, SA. goldwaterp@mail.wch.sa.gov.au
SP englisch
PO Australien