TY - JOUR AU - Paul, Mathilde AU - Abrial, David AU - Jarrige, Nathalie AU - Rican, Stéphane AU - Garrido, Myriam AU - Calavas, Didier AU - Ducrot, Christian T1 - Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Spatial Analysis of the Feed Industry T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2007 VL - 13 IS - 6 SP - 867 SN - 1080-6059 AB - In France, despite the ban of meat-and-bone meal (MBM) in cattle feed, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was detected in hundreds of cattle born after the ban. To study the role of MBM, animal fat, and dicalcium phosphate on the risk for BSE after the feed ban, we conducted a spatial analysis of the feed industry. We used data from 629 BSE cases as well as on use of each byproduct and market area of the feed factories. We mapped risk for BSE in 951 areas supplied by the same factories and connection with use of byproducts. A disease map of BSE with covariates was built with the hierarchical Bayesian modeling methods, based on Poisson distribution with spatial smoothing. Only use of MBM was spatially linked to risk for BSE, which highlights cross-contamination as the most probable source of infection after the feed ban. KW - BSE KW - spatial analysis KW - epidemiology KW - cattle KW - feed industry KW - research KW - France DO - 10.3201/eid1306.061169 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/13/6/06-1169_article ER - End of Reference