UPDATE ON BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY, JULY 1993

The Centers for Epidemiology and Animal Health (USDA:APhis:VS) in the United States conducted a survey recently of the data relating to the present epidemic of bovine spongiform encephatopathy (BSE). The findin gs indicate that the measures adopted since 1988 in Great Britain, whe re over 99% of the laboratory-confirmed cases have been reported, are having an effect. The US report confirms that the measures adopted by the Irish authorities from the outset were wholly justifiable on epide miological and economic grounds. The following is a summary of the US findings as published in the report entitled 'Bovine Spongiform Enceph alopathy: Implications for the United States' (July 1993).