NR AWIF
AU Kramer,M.N.; Ragan,V.E.
TI BSE - the United States of America's experience, surveillance and strategy
QU International Conference - Prion 2006: Strategies, advances and trends towards protection of society - 3.10.-6.10.2006, Torino, Italy, Lingotto Conference Centre - Poster sessions EPI-12
PT Konferenz-Poster
AB Throughout Europe and Asia, there seems to be a genuine misunderstanding of how the U.S. commenced BSE surveillance and controls in the late 1980s and continued throughout the 1990s to monitor both CJD in humans and BSE in ruminants, and to prevent their spread. Three agencies of the U.S. government play a key role in our national integrated BSE controls: USDA, FDA, and the CDC. With the aforementioned agencies and guidance from the Harvard Risk Assessment Study, the U.S. feels that all of the firewalls implemented from the late 1980s have safeguarded the U.S. from BSE or CJD problems. The epidemiologic study that has, as of June 15, 2006, tested in excess of 730,000 high-risk cattle and over 21,000 clinically normal adult cattle, as part of the enhanced BSE surveillance program, starting in 2004, bolsters this point. Surveillance in humans, also begun in the 1980s, further confirms the success of the BSE firewalls and will be discussed. To date, two nativeborn American cattle were diagnosed with atypical BSE and one imported cow from Canada was diagnosed with typical BSE. The lack of understanding of the U.S.'s program has cost upwards of $5 billion in international trade, yet has had zero impact on the consumption habits and public opinion of the U.S. public. In this presentation, we will cover the veterinary, public health, food safety and human epidemiologic implications of BSE and CJD in the U.S., our experience, surveillance and strategy.
AD M.N. Kramer: EHA Consulting Group, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, USA; V.E. Ragan: AgWorks Solutions, LLC, Washington, DC, USA. E-mail: mkramer@ehagroup.com; valerie@agworkssolutions.com
SP englisch
PO Italien