Brussels, 10/03/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 9 March, the European Commission requested further investigation into the unusual cases of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) in two French sheep and one from Cyprus, to ensure that the animals, which had been thought to be suffering from scrapie, had not, in fact, contracted bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). No case of BSE has ever been recorded under natural circumstances in a sheep, but, in January 2005, a case of BSE was found in...