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ACCIDENTAL contamination is an abiding anxiety for all who work with scrapie agent and the possibility of false positive results is well recognized1. Few, however, have sought to evaluate this risk experimentally. In the light of the report by Morris et al.2, we have examined the role of close physical contact and animal house fomites (sawdust, droppings, scrapers, and so on) in the establishment of the disease in normal animals.
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FIELD, E., JOYCE, G. Evidence against Transmission of Scrapie by Animal House Fomites. Nature 226, 971–973 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/226971a0
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