Research and analysis

Cattle: TSE surveillance statistics

Statistics on the surveillance of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) in cattle in the United Kingdom.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Published: 11 February 2015
• Last updated: 28 February 2024 — See all updates

Documents

Overview of Great Britain statistics

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General statistics

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Age and related statistics

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BSE cases born after the reinforced feed ban (BARB) in the UK

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Details

These documents provide statistics on the number of cases of TSE disease found through the active and passive disease surveillance of cattle in the United Kingdom.

Cases of TSE disease identified in cattle from passive surveillance in United Kingdom have been recorded since 1986. The UK carried out limited active surveillance in cattle from 1999 to 2001. The European Union active surveillance programme started in July 2001.

The UK carries out active disease surveillance for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle. The testing programme includes cattle over 48 months of age which:

• die or are killed other than for human consumption (fallen cattle)
• are emergency slaughtered or show certain abnormalities at ante-mortem inspection

These age thresholds apply to cattle born in the United Kingdom or in other EU member states except Bulgaria and Romania. For cattle born elsewhere the age thresholds are 24 months for fallen cattle or emergency slaughtered cattle, and 30 months for healthy fallen cattle.

Passive disease surveillance takes place when an animal with clinical signs suspicious of a TSE disease is reported to Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), and further investigation determines whether the animal was affected by BSE or scrapie.

Published 11 February 2015
Last updated 28 February 2024 + show all updates

1. 28 February 2024

   Updated all 4 Cattle TSE surveillance statistics documents.

2. 29 August 2023

   Updated the general statistics.

3. 5 April 2023

   Update all 4 attachments.

4. 9 December 2022

   Updated the following TSE statistics documents: Overview of Great Britain statistics, general statistics, age and related statistics, list of BSE cases born after the reinforced feed ban (BARB).

5. 16 November 2022

   Updated the following TSE statistics documents: general statistics, age and related statistics and the lists of BARB cases.

6. 16 November 2022

   Updated the overview of Great Britain statistics document.

7. 20 September 2022

   Updated the following TSE statistics documents: overview of Great Britain statistics, general statistics, age and related statistics, list of BARB cases.

8. 16 February 2022

   Updated the following TSE statistics documents: Overview of Great Britain statistics, general statistics, age and related statistics, list of BARB cases.

9. 22 October 2021

   Updated the documents to include the latest data.

10. 23 March 2021

    Attachments updated to include February 2021 data.

11. 21 January 2021

    Updated the overview and general statistics documents.

12. 21 December 2020

    Stats available for November 2020.

13. 20 November 2020

    Updated the cattle TSE surveillance statistics: overview of GB, age and related and general.

14. 14 October 2020

    Updated the TSE cattle barb cases statistics.

15. 19 August 2020

    Updated the cattle TSE surveillance statistics: overview of GB and general.

16. 17 October 2019

    Updated cattle TSE surveillance statistics reports for September 2019

17. 11 September 2019

    Published cattle TSE stats for August 2019

18. 20 August 2019

    Replacement documents with July statistics uploaded.

19. 16 July 2019

    Stats available for June

20. 14 June 2019

    May 2019 statistics available

21. 14 May 2019

    Statistics updated

22. 15 April 2019

    Statistics updated

23. 7 March 2019

    Statistics available for February 2019

24. 14 February 2019

    Documents updated

25. 17 January 2019

    Documents updated

26. 11 December 2018

    Documents updated

27. 14 November 2018

    Documents updated

28. 13 November 2018

    List of BARB cases updated

29. 8 October 2018

    Documents updated

30. 10 September 2018

    Documents updated

31. 15 August 2018

    Documents updated

32. 10 July 2018

    Cattle documents updated

33. 11 June 2018

    Cattle documents updated

34. 9 May 2018

    Documents updated

35. 18 April 2018

    Documents updated

36. 8 March 2018

    Cattle documents updated

37. 28 February 2018

    Removed 'cattle over 72 months which are healthy and slaughtered for human consumption' bullet under testing programme includes section.

38. 6 February 2018

    Documents updated

39. 11 January 2018

    Updated documents

40. 12 December 2017

    Updated documents

41. 9 November 2017

    Documents updated

42. 20 October 2017

    Updated cattle documents

43. 7 September 2017

    Updated cattle documents

44. 3 August 2017

    Updated documents

45. 6 July 2017

    Cattle documents updated

46. 13 June 2017

    Updated cattle documents

47. 10 May 2017

    Cattle age and Overview of Great Britain documents updated

48. 7 April 2017

    Updated cattle documents

49. 8 March 2017

    List of BARB cases updated

50. 8 March 2017

    Updated cattle documents

51. 8 February 2017

    Documents updated

52. 11 January 2017

    Documents updated

53. 9 December 2016

    Documents updated

54. 10 November 2016

    Cattle documents updated

55. 27 October 2016

    Cattle age document updated

56. 7 October 2016

    List of BARB cases document updated

57. 7 October 2016

    Cattle documents updated

58. 13 September 2016

    Cattle documents updated

59. 12 August 2016

    Cattle documents updated

60. 7 July 2016

    Documents updated

61. 10 May 2016

    Cattle documents updated

62. 11 April 2016

    Cattle documents updated

63. 14 March 2016

    Cattle documents updated

64. 10 February 2016

    Cattle documents updated

65. 12 January 2016

    Documents updated

66. 8 December 2015

    Cattle documents updated for November 2015

67. 9 November 2015

    Updated documents for October 2015.

68. 6 October 2015

    Updated statistics for September 2015

69. 10 September 2015

    Documents updated for August 2015

70. 9 June 2015

    Documents updated for May 2015

71. 11 February 2015

    First published.

72. 1 October 2014

    AHVLA documents have been re-assigned to the new Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).