Description
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy was first described in 1987 as a new disease in cattle and was subsequently linked to feeding of contaminated meat and bone meal. The feeding ban of meat and bone meal to farm animals led to a significant reduction in the number of cases to very few in recent years, but eradication of this disease is made difficult by the discovery of atypical forms, which may arise spontaneously and have never been reported in live animals. This webinar aims to provide an overview of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in cattle, covering epidemiology, pathological diagnosis. It will also cover particularly clinical presentation to raise awareness of this notifiable disease and consider it in the differential diagnosis for any cattle with slowly progressive neurological signs or recumbent cattle with a history of chronic disease.
