The European Union summary report on surveillance for the presence of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) in 2019.

ABSTRACT: This report presents the results of surveillance on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) in cattle, sheep, goats, cervids and other species, and genotyping in sheep, carried out in 2019 by 28 Member States (MS), and by Iceland, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia and Switzerland (non-MS). In total, 1,150,388 cattle were tested by MS, a 2.7% decrease from 2018 and 44,557 by the six non-MS. Six cases of H-BSE were reported by France (4) and Spain (2), and 1 L-BSE by Poland. The number of H- BSE cases was the largest reported per year including the youngest ever case (5.5 years of age). In total, 338,098 sheep and 143,529 goats were tested in the EU, an increase of 3.9% in both species compared with 2018. In sheep, 17 inconclusive cases by two MS and 997 cases of scrapie we

SUBMITTER: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7670303 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature