Scrapie in Britain during the BSE years.

Focuses on the possibility that some sheep in Great Britain were infected during the 1980s after exposure to feed contaminated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). Similarity of BSE in sheep to the transmissible spongiform encephalopathy called scrapie; Data of the historical changes in scrapie incidence indicating that it is unlikely that a substantial epidemic of BSE has occurred in the sheep population.