Survey on scrapie
20 November 1998
Survey on scrapie
MAFF has sent questionnaires to 11,500 sheep farmers in a bid to establish the true incidence of scrapie in the national flock.
Although the disease is notifiable, the ministry says experts suspect that there is under-reporting. As part of a strategy to improve scrapie surveillance, the BSE advisory committee, SEAC, recommended the postal survey. *
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