Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) surveillance programme

Authors: Vink D
Publication: Surveillance, Volume 42, Issue 3, pp 26-27, Sep 2015
Publisher: Ministry for Primary Industries

Article class: Annual Report

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Abstract: New Zealand is free from the main TSEs, namely bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) of cattle, classical scrapie of sheep and goats, and chronic wasting disease (CWD) of deer. The TSE surveillance and risk management measures implemented in New Zealand have been described in previous annual reports (e.g. Vink & Kittelberger, 2014). Surveillance for CWD is not mandated by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), and is partly funded by industry; it is carried out to assure our trade partners of NZ’s freedom from this disease.

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