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Spain - Bovine spongiform encephalopathy - Immediate notification - WAHIS/WOAH

Mary Wilson

Well-known member
METHOD OF DIAGNOSTIC

Diagnostic test
Antigen detection Western blot (Ag Western blot)Laboratorio Central de Veterinaria de AlgeteCattlePontevedra2023/02/03Positive
Immunohistochemistry (IHC)Laboratorio Central de Veterinaria de AlgeteCattlePontevedra2023/02/03Positive

... OUTBREAK REFERENCE

START DATE
2023/01/21

END DATE
2023/02/06

DETAILED CHARACTERISATION
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FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION
Galicia

SECOND ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION
PONTEVEDRA

THIRD ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION
TABEIROS-TERRA DE MONTES

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL UNIT
Farm

LOCATION
Pontevedra

Animal
AFFECTED POPULATION DESCRIPTION

The cow, born on 23/10/2000, was euthanized on the farm with clinical signs of disease not related to BSE. The sample entered the LCV register on 31/01/2023, whose sender was the laboratory of production and animal health of Galicia, which recorded with the registration entry number 2023/000391-A and under the demand for confirmation of BSE. The national reference laboratory carried out the confirmation tests, authorized according to EU regulation 1148/2014. Subsequently, BSE strain discrimination tests were performed, which confirmed the presence of atypical BSE (type H strain). The sample was taken in the framework of national transmissible spongiform encephalopathies surveillance program (sampling of dead or not slaughtered for human consumption animals over 48 months of age). There are no live cohort animals ...

https://wahis.woah.org/#/in-review/4888
 
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