Sacred cows, science and uncertainties

Nature

Volumn 382, Issue 6594, 1996, Pages 755-756

  Skegg, David C G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; CATTLE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PUBLIC POLICY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0029736920     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/382755a0     Document Type: Short Survey

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