AR-News: (US) Member of BSE review panel sees no clash with Harvard study

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

"These animals have not been detected and therefore infective material has 
likely been rendered, fed to cattle, and amplified within the cattle population, 
so that cattle in the USA have also been indigenously infected," the panel's 
report said. 
At first glance, the report seemed to contradict a widely publicized BSE risk 
assessment that was released by the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis in 2001 
and updated in 2003. The Harvard report, commissioned by the USDA, left the 
general impression that there was little risk of BSE occurring in the United 
States. 
But in an interview, Hueston pointed out that what the Harvard report 
actually said was that if BSE were introduced into the United States, it would spread 
very little and would eventually disappear, thanks to existing safeguards. 
"The controls in place would limit the epidemic and over time, the epidemic 
would extinguish itself," he said in summing up the report. "Nowhere did they say 
it would never occur or that it's outside the realm of possibility that there 
would be domestic cases." 



full story:
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/hot/bse/news/feb1604bse.html 


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