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About the cattle BSE/Scrapie experiments in Mission, Texas in 1979?

I have always thought that this affliction started in the UK in 1981.


The 1979 video clip of sheep-to-cow was from an exeriment in Mission, Texas. It apparently has never been made public before and was obtained under Freedom of Information Act but the results were no 'secret.' The program made clear that transmission was from [intra-cerebral] injection and not from feed. Brain tissue from the infected Mission cattle were later injected into other cattle to determine if second passage was possible, with positive results. The 1979 experiment is discussed in later publications by the Cutlip-Robinson group, relevent abstracts below.
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