HC Deb 15 February 1990 vol 167 cc418-9W
Mr. Matthew Taylor

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what evidence he has as to whether the infective agent in scrapie can be passed to mink.

Mr. Maclean

Reports of outbreaks of natural transmissible mink encephalopathy in north America indicate that some may have resulted from the feeding to mink of scrapie-infected sheep material. In addition, research conducted in the United States has in certain circumstances transmitted scrapie-infected material from sheep and goats into mink experimentally.

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