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Written question asked by Lord Greaves (Liberal Democrat), in the House of Lords. It was answered by Lord Rooker (Labour) on Monday, 15 January 2007.

Agriculture: Scrapie

Question
asked Her Majesty's Government:How many cases have been identified of atypical scrapie and of which genotype were the sheep concerned.
Answer

Some 155 cases of atypical scrapie in sheep have been detected in Great Britain. The table below breaks this down by year and genotype. Nearly all (149) have been detected through the ““active”” surveillance programme launched in 2002. Under this programme, almost 206,000 brain samples from sheep sent for slaughter and from fallen stock have been tested thus far for the presence of a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. The remaining six cases have been detected through passive surveillance (animals reported as exhibiting clinical signs).

Data as at 3 January 2007
NSP Type Genotype 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Total
I ARR/ARR 3 7 4 1 1 16
II ARR/AHQ 4 11 4 12 11 42
ARR/ARH - 1 - - - 1
ARR/ARQ 2 7 1 3 5 18
III AHQ/AHQ 4 6 1 2 7 20
AHQ/ARH - - 1 - 2 3
AHQ/ARQ 3 14 2 3 12 34
ARH/ARH - - - - - -
ARH/ARQ - - - 1 - 1
ARQ/ARQ 2 5 3 3 6 19
IV ARR/VRQ - - - - - -
V AHQ/VRQ - - - - - -
ARH/VRQ - - - - - -
ARQ/VRQ - 1 - - - 1
VRQ/VRQ - - - - - -
Total 18 52 16 25 44 155

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
1041; 688 c117WA
Session
2006-07
Subjects
Genetics Sheep Scrapie
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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