Study nixes maternal mad cow transmission
London– It's unlikely the transmission of mad cow disease will pass from one generation of cows to the next, according to new British research.
London - It's unlikely the transmission of mad cow disease will pass from one generation of cows to the next, according to new British research.
A scientist at the Veterinary Laboratories Agency says he believes the only way animals could contract bovine spongiform encephalopathy was by consuming contaminated feed.
"I think the concern at the moment that we have is cross-contamination of feedstuffs which have been imported into Britain, and so there is still a possibility that one could get cross-contamination in the holds of ships," says Professor John Wilesmith, at the laboratory.
His experiment took embryos from BSE-infected cows and planted them in the wombs of surrogate mothers. None of the calves or surrogates contracted the disease.
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