§ Mr. DrewTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish the latest scientific evidence on the presence of the BSE prion within(a) the dorsal root ganglia and (b) marrow of cattle. [96297]
§ Ms Quin[holding answer 29 October 1999]: The results of the BSE pathogenesis study which described the detection of infectivity in dorsal root ganglia and bone marrow of orally infected cattle were reported in the following two articles:
"Preliminary observations on the pathogenesis of experimental bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)": by G.A.H. Wells and others. (The Veterinary Record, 1998/Vol. 142/31/1/1998, pp. 103-106).
"Limited detection of sternal bone marrow infectivity in the clinical phase of experimental bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)": by G.A.H. Wells and others. (The Veterinary Record, 1999/Vol. 144/13/3/1999, pp. 292-294).
There are no new results to report.