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Doubts over ability to monitor risks of BSE spread to sheep

Has ‘mad cow disease’ — BSE — infected sheep in the United Kingdom? Scientific advisers to the UK government and the European Commission are calling for research to assess the risks to be stepped up.

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Butler, D. Doubts over ability to monitor risks of BSE spread to sheep. Nature 395, 6–7 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/25573

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