BSE in Scotland: epidemiology report, 2018
An epidemiological report on the classical BSE case in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in 2018.
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In October 2018, the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) confirmed a case of classical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
This case was identified through the UK active surveillance system, as required by the domestic and European law. It is the first case of classical BSE since 2015 to be confirmed in the UK.
This report summarises the epidemiological investigations carried out in order to describe and explain this BSE case. To this date, these detailed investigations have not revealed a plausible source of infection for this BARB case, nor have they detected any evidence or other cause for concern that statutory official BSE/Feed controls have been breached at any point in relation to this BARB case or its herd of origin.