Italian
Researcher Tells Audience at K-State That Work in Animal Models Suggests a
Variant of Mad Cow Disease May Be Transmissible to Humans
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update: 4:59 p.m. EST Nov. 24, 2008 MANHATTAN, KS, Nov 24, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) --
The classical form of mad cow disease and a variant manifest themselves
differently, but research suggests that the variant may also be transmissible
to humans, according a researcher speaking at Kansas State University. Cristina Casalone presented
"BSE and BASE: An Update" at the Emerging Infections: A Tribute to
the One Medicine, One Health Concept symposium on Nov. 14 at K-State. The
conference drew nearly 150 researchers from Europe, Asia, North America and
the K-State is among the finalists for the National Bio and
Agro-Defense Facility, a federal center for animal health. The symposium's
major sponsors included the Heartland BioAgro
Consortium, which is leading an effort to bring the National Bio and
Agro-Defense Facility to Casalone's presentation addressed studies to assess whether bovine amyloidotic spongiform encephalopathy, often called BASE,
is caused by a transmissible prion strain different
from the one that causes classical bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE.
She said that BASE and BSE differed in several ways, including incubation
time. Data suggest that BASE has at least the same animal and human health
risks as classical BSE, she said. The symposium was led by Juergen
Richt, the Regents Distinguished Professor of
Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology at K-State and
Kansas Bioscience Authority Eminent Scholar. In September, Richt and colleague Mark Hall of the National Veterinary
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