HC Deb 02 February 1990 vol 166 c409W
Mr. Matthew Taylor

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make scrapie a notifiable disease; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Maclean

I have no plans to do so. The disease, which has been present in the national flock for well over two centuries, is endemic in a sheep population of over 10 million and there is no test in the live animal. Intensive study has shown that there is no epidemiological relationship between scrapie and the human encephalopathies.

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