Back to profile Contact person for... - drs. LJM (Lucien) van Keulen type_page What is BSE? BSE stands for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy. It is a disease that occurs in cattle. There are concerns that it may also occur in other small... Scrapie Scrapie is a deadly, degenerative and transmissible disease that affects the central nervous system of sheep and goats. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) occurs very rarely. There are several types of CJD. Worldwide, the number of new cases of CJD per year (incidence) is... BSE, aka mad cow disease BSE, also known as mad cow disease, stands for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy. This cattle disease also causes a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob... Prion diseases Wageningen Bioveterinary Research provides diagnostic services, scientific research and policy advice to public and private sector organisations for... News Genetic selection increases scrapie resistance in goats 18 mei 2016 | Research in the last decade found that some haplotypes of the prion protein increase resistance to scrapie infection and may be used in selective...
