What is the risk of chronic wasting disease being introduced into Great Britain?

What is the risk of chronic wasting disease being introduced into Great Britain ? A Qualitative Risk Assessment

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Qualitative Risk Assessment: What is the risk of a cervid TSE being introduced from Norway into Great Britain?

Risk management of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in North America.

As North American Free Trade Agreement partners, Canada, the United States of America (USA) and Mexico apply independent but harmonised transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) risk management strategies in observance of Office International des Epizooties guidelines. The divergence between bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) risk management approaches in North American and Europe refle...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Louisiana, 1980-2006.

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are diseases thought to be caused by mutant cellular proteins found in mammalian nerve tissues. This family of diseases is known to affect a variety of animals, including: sheep (scrapie), cattle (bovine spongiform encephalopathy), mink (transmissible mink encephalopathy), deer and elk (chronic wasting disease), and humans (GerstmannStraussier-Sc...

Association of Long Term Antibiotic Use and Diagnosis of Chronic Disease

Background: There has recently been increasing interest in the role of the human microbiome in disease. Antibiotic use is known to disrupt the intestinal microbial environment and cause acute disease, for example pseudomembranous colitis. This study aimed to investigate the hypothesis that long-term antibiotic use is associated with the development of chronic diseases, i.e., Asthma, Rheumatoid ...