BSE FIGURES
March 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLFIGURES presented to European Union ministers by EU health Commissioner David Byrne suggest that BSE infection is continuing to decline across Europe. Although the total number of cases detected in tests remained roughly constant in 2002 compared with 2001, there were 10 per cent more tests carried out last year, (around 10 million), than the previous year. As a result, said Mr Byrne, the "ratio of positive cases found in tested animals dropped by 22 per cent." Regarding scrapie, more than 360,000 tests were carried out on sheep and goats in 2002, ...
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