BSE CAN SPREAD BY AIR, SCIENTISTS WARN
February 2nd, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SLAUGHTERHOUSES may have to install additional ventilation and air extraction systems after scientists discovered bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) can be spread to livestock by air. The have found prions - the infectious agents triggering the disease - are not necessarily transmitted only by eating contaminated material. The researchers from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and the Institute of Immunology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Tübingen, Germany, say that the discovery could help develop new defensive measures against the ...
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