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A search of the literature concerning transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME) outbreaks in the United States and a postal survey of the feeding practices of Wisconsin mink producers were conducted to estimate the maximum prevalence and incidence of a hypothetical bovine transmissible encephalopathy within the context of the following hypothesis: the source of agent for each TME outbreak in Wisconsin was food-borne exposure of mink to a cow with an unrecognized transmissible encephalopathy, and every exposure to such a cow resulted in a TME outbreak. Within the context of this hypothesis, it was estimated that the maximum prevalence of the hypothetical transmissible encephalopathy in nonambulatory adult cattle could have been no more than 1:27,500. By extrapolation, the hypothetical disease occurred with an annual incidence of 1:975,000 adult cattle per year in Wisconsin, if it occurred at all.
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Robinson, M.M. (1996). An Assessment of Transmissible Mink Encephalopathy as an Indicator of Bovine Scrapie in U.S. Cattle. In: Gibbs, C.J. (eds) Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy. Serono Symposia USA Norwell, Massachusetts. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2406-8_8
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