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Survey underlines need for minimizing secondary human exposure to prions
16 August 2012 | Official publicationsThe Health Protection Agency of the UK has released its summary results of the second national survey of abnormal prion prevalence in archived appendix specimens. The Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) TSE Risk Assessment Subgroup published a comment on the these results in a position paper.
BSE in Califormia in April was isolated but likely not unique
06 August 2012 | Technical news (commented)A final investigation summary into the Californian case of BSE in April this year has been published by FDA. The BSE case is confirmed to have been 'isolated', but there is no reason to assume it was unique.
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