BSE = Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy = Mad Cow Disease

With WHAT DOES RESEMBLE a Mad Cow? HISTORY...........The MAP THE CONTAMINATION .. the TRANSMISSION... WORRY (New Variant of CJD) More DETAILED INFORMATION (links) Statistics in the WORLD

Last Case in FRANCE : Updated

cases in FRANCE at

since beginning of the epidemic

It should be noted that the system of epidemiology surveillance set up in France since 1990 must be regarded as extremely effective since it manages to detect 1 sick Cow out of 1 million individual.

It rests on a network of liberal medical veterinary surgeons who, on the ground, screen all the animals presenting of the nervous signs. It also rests on the veterinary surgeons inspectors of the slaughterhouses which examine with a detailed attention the animals cut down for nervous disorders or presenting such disorders to their input at the slaughterhouse.

LAST NATIVE CASE OF BSE IN FRANCE ( ^th )
(162 cases in 2000)
(60 of which are Prionics Tests + from Research Program)
( 274 cases in 2001)
(83 of which are Test+ at slaughtering more 24 months old cattle)
(14 of which from Research Program)
(86 of which from European Program on dead animals)
( 239 cases in 2002)
(74 of which are Test+ at slaughtering more 24 months old cattle)
(124 of which from European Program on dead animals)
( 137 cases in 2003)
( 37 of which are Test+ at slaughtering more 24 months old cattle)
( 87 of which from European Program on dead animals)
( 54 cases in 2004)
( 17 of which are Test+ at slaughtering more 24 months old cattle)
( 29 of which from European Program on dead animals)
( 31 cases in 2005)
( 12 of which are Test+ at slaughtering more 24 months old cattle)
( 17 of which from European Program on dead animals)
( 8 cases in 2006)
( 2 of which are Test+ at slaughtering more 24 months old cattle)
( 6 of which from European Program on dead animals)
( 9 cases in 2007)
(3 of which are Test+ at slaughtering more 24 months old cattle)
(6 of which from European Program on dead animals)

( 7 cases in 2008)
(1 of which are Test+ at slaughtering more 24 months old cattle)
(6 of which from European Program on dead animals)

 

See Interactive Map !

Statistics in the WORLD and More

Corner of the veto:

the suspect sick animal (+ 2 years)

slow evolution (15 minimum days)

behavioural problems (anxiety-aggressiveness-fear)

oversensitiveness (noise-dazzling-touch)

locomotion disorders (ataxia)

no pyretic

The nervous disorders at the bovines are frequent and I still intend our professor of Contagious diseases to recall us:"
all is rage and nothing is rage! "

As regards BSE the diagnosis of certainty can be made only after the death of the the animal...
with the histological examination of brain, Western-blot test ....

This is why one will have initially to consider that the nervous disorders observed are not BSE ; if our art and our perspicacity do not enable us to carry a diagnosis one will have TO CONVINCE the stock breeder who it is necessary to be able to observe the sick animal during a sufficient time... " nothing is not used for to run... "

The intervention on the spot of the Veterinary surgeon "Coordinator" can help to obtain from the stock breeder (always in a hurry to have a diagnosis), time necessary to the decision-making.

History

Mar 2006 :Europe :Cessation of British Embargo...

Mar 2006 :Sweeden :First native Case of BSE

Jun 2005 :U.S.A. :First native Case of BSE

Sept 2004 :Europe :Cessation of Portuguese Embargo...

Jan 2004 :France : 6 atypic cases of BSE

Dec 2003 :U.S.A. : First Case of BSE from Canada

May 2003 :Canada : First native Case of BSE

Jun 2002 :Israel : First native Case of BSE

May 2002 :Poland : First native Case of BSE

Dec 2001 :Austria, Finland : First native Case of BSE

Nov 2001 :Slovenia : First native Case of BSE

Sept 2001 :Japan, Slovakia : First native Case of BSE

July 2001 : France : Post-mortem Tests will be performed in European program for 3 years (more than 24 month old cattle)

June 2001 :Greece : First native Case of BSE

Czech Republic : First native Case of BSE

Europe : PROHIBITION of the M.B.F. renewed..

Jan 2001 :Italy : First native Case of BSE

December 2000 :Europe : PROHIBITION of the M.B.F. in all species FROM 01-01-2001 , renewable every 6 months....

November 2000 :Germany : 2 first native cases of BSE

Spain : 2 first native cases of BSE

France :PROHIBITION of M.B.F. in all species

October 2000 :France : PROHIBITION of Intestines

June 2000 :France : 48000 Post-mortem Tests will be performed since end 2000

February 2000 :Denmark :First native case of BSE

October 1999 :France : Refuse the raising of Embargo on British meat

July 1999 :Europe :Prolongation of Portuguese Embargo...

Nov 1998: Europe : PROHIBITION to export Portuguese bovines towards the EEC

June 1998: Europe : Resumption of Exports from Northern IRELAND

Jan 1998: BANNING of high-risk OFFALS

Dec 1997 : Great Britain : forbid the sale of meat on the bone ....U.S.A. FORBID importation of beef and mutton from Europe

Oct. 1997 Evidence of the possible transmission to MAN

1996 The CRISIS after the advertisement by the British government of the possibility of one transmission to the man...

France :PROHIBITION of high-risk OFFALS and corpses

1994 France :PROHIBITION of the M.B.F. for the feeding of the RUMINANTS

1991 France : FIRST CASE detected

1990 Europe : PROHIBITION to export >6-months-old British bovines towards the EEC

France :PROHIBITION of the M.B.F. for the feeding of the COWS

July 1988 Great Britain : PROHIBITION of the M.B.F. for the feeding of the RUMINANTS

April 1988 Great Britain : 1988 the contamination of the bovines by consumption of insufficiently heated M.B.F. is suspected

1987 Installation of a network of epidemiology surveillance in ENGLAND

April 1985 Appearance of the " first? " case of BSE

1980 The ENGLISH (for dark economic reasons) modify the procedures of manufacture of M.B.F.(Meat and Bone Flours)

The agent responsible for disease (PRION? -- VIRINO? -- VIRUS?) was present in certain CORPSES which were used to manufacture M.B.F.(Meat and Bone Flours). As long as the industrial processing of the flours by heat were sufficient, the transmission of the disease was not possible via the feeding.

The scientists do not know yet with precision if the agent responsible for the disease were of origin Bovine (not diagnosed pre-existent disease very rare bus) or Ovine (Disease of Trembling) . In fact the sheep presents a disease similar to the BSE of which the agent, concentrated in the M.B.F. could adapt to the bovines.

Our good ruminant thus absorbed by oral way of the residues of corpses containing the agent of the BSE this one not having been destroyed by heat ( ONE KNOWS NOW THAT IT IS SPECIALLY RESISTANT...!)

Trade of food containing the M.B.F. made the remainder.

The disease developing only very slowly (several years!) it was already too late when the first cases of BSE were detected by the British. Only the stop of the distribution of M.B.F to the bovines could stop the progression of the disease ... what was made!!

The duration of incubation described above will involve despite everything the declaration of case of BSE during several year after the stop of the distribution of the accused flours.

IN the CURRENT STATE OF OUR KNOWLEDGE the EPIDEMIC MUST STOP IN A FEW YEARS (the English figures show a regular decrease of the number of cases).

Concerns (Apr. 1996-Dec 2006)

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• April 1996 A young Frenchman is dead in Lyon of new form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
  
• October 1997
  Two studies showed in October 1997 that new form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease of the Man (22 diagnosed cases at the end of September 97 in England) was due to the infectious agent (prion) of the BSE. The disease would be thus indeed transmissible to the Man...
  One understands better the importance of extremes measurements which were taken since March 1996 concerning the beef and veal, ALL THESE MEASUREMENTS TOOK INTO ACCOUNT THE POSSIBILITY Of A TRANSMISSION TO HUMAN.
  The English scientists to date do not have any idea of the number of case of disease which can touch the man at the beginning of this October 1997 the incidence of the new cases does not increase. BUT ONE KNOWS VERY BADLY DURATION OF INCUBATION OF THE DISEASE FROM HUMAN ONE KNOWS EVEN LESS THE INFECTING AMOUNT.
  TO FOLLOW.....
  
• February 1998 23^th Case of new form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in England
  
• August 1998 27 cases of new form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease since beginning of epidemic.
  
• March 30 1999 39 cases of new form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease since beginning of epidemic.
  (1995 : 3 cas ; 1996 : 10 cas ; 1997 : 10 cas ; 1998 : 15 cas ; 1999 : 1 cas.)
  
• July 7 1999 First case of new form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Ireland
  
• July 31 1999 43 cases of new form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease since beginning of epidemic.
  
• November 01 1999 48 cases of new form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease since beginning of epidemic. (1999 : 8 cas )
  
• December 16 1999 Second case of vCJD in France
  
• December 21 1999
  DeArmond and his colleagues have shown that the disease could have passed from cows to people.
  The researchers took proteins called prions from cows with Mad Cow disease and from the brains of people who had died with the new variety of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and placed them in two groups of genetically altered mice . The time between infection with the prions and the first symptoms was identical in both sets of mice, according to DeArmond. In addition, the human prions and the Cow prions caused the same kind of damage to the brains of the mice
  10 English patients hospitalised (on of which is a young girl 13 years old) will be suffering from new form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD)
  
• Oct 01 2004
  147 Cases In England, 2 Cases in Irish republic , 8 Cases in France, 1 Case in Canada on Aug 2002 (Great-Britain origin)
  1 Case in Hongkong (02/2002)(Great-Britain origin), 1 Suspect Case in Hongary (2001), 1 Case in Italy (09/2002)
  1 Case in USA (Young women, 22 years old, coming from Great-Britain, living in Floride) (04/2002)
  1 Suspect Case in Tcheque republic (07/2003)
• Dec 01 2007
  166 Cases In England, 4 Cases in Irish republic , 23 Cases in France, 1 Case in Canada on Aug 2002 (Great-Britain origin)
  1 Case in Hongkong (02/2002)(Great-Britain origin), 1 Suspect Case in Hongary (2001), 1 Case in Italy (08/2003)
  3 Cases in USA,
  1 Suspect Case in Tcheque republic (07/2003), 1 Case in Japan (Great-Britain origin) 12/2004 )
  2 Cases in Nederlands, 1 Cas in Portugal (Young man 12 years old) (06/2005)
  1 Case in Spain (Young Women 26 years old) (07/2005)

IMPORTANT LINKS

• The MUST on Mad Cow in FRANCE : L' INSERM
• A other French Site : L'INRA
• The MUST in ENGLISH : THE SITE !
• English Government :THE OTHER SITE !
• The List of sites on BSE : The Catalogue !
• An Other List of sites on BSE : In Germany
• More on "Prion" (in French): INFOBIOGEN