Method for diagnosis of BSE or similar illnesses in living animals based on recording of corona discharge images, from for example the ears, for comparison with images from animals known to be sick

摘要

Diagnosis of BSE or similar illnesses in living animals in which serial examinations of all endangered animals are undertaken with a device for making corona discharges visible for diagnostic purposes, is new. Diagnosis of BSE or similar illnesses in living animals in which serial examinations of all endangered animals are undertaken with a device for making corona discharges visible for diagnostic purposes, is new. Control examinations of slaughtered animals are undertaken using chemical and genetic techniques, a database is created of all the images of corona discharges, comparison of the images of animals identified as ill from the control examinations with images of healthy animals and sorting of images based on the images of ill animals as a criteria for serial examinations, are carried out.