No evidence has yet been found to suggest a link between goats and the brain-wasting mad cow disease, BSE, the European Commission said on Friday in its assessment of a French study that suggested a possible risk.

During routine tests, French experts found a case of scrapie in a goat's brain. Scrapie is a brain-wasting disease from the same family as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).

But on further analysis, the disease was found to be a different strain to scrapie, raising fears that it might be BSE. France then sent the data to Brussels for further tests.

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Source: Reuters News Service
November 29, 2004

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