The prevalence of atypical scrapie in sheep from positive flocks is not higher than in the general sheep population in 11 European countries

Table 3 Prevalence of atypical scrapie (AS) in active surveillance from starting year for detection of AS in active surveillance to 2007

Surveillance stream	Starting year	Country	Cases	Tests	Prevalence (per 10,000)	CI 95%
Fallen stock	2004	Belgium	4	3238	12.4	3.4 - 31.6
	2006	Denmark	3	8177	3.7	0.8 - 10.7
	2004	Finland	4	3924	10.2	2.8 - 26.1
	2002	France	225	304832	7.4	6.4 - 8.4
	2006	Greece	0	7913	0	0 - 4.7
	2005	Iceland	0	152	0	0 - 239.8
	2005	Italy	11	27945	3.9	2.0 - 7.0
	2004	The Netherlands	0	1000	0	0 - 36.8
	2002	Norway	27	21137	12.8	08.4 - 18.6
	2004	Portugal	77	48662	15.8	12.5 - 19.8
	2004	Sweden	7	12434	5.6	2.3 - 11.6
Healthy slaughter	2004	Belgium	2	16109	1.2	0.2 - 4.5
	2006	Denmark	1	2476	4.0	0.1 - 22.5
	2004	Finland	1	5618	1.8	<0.1 - 9.9
	2002	France	190	318333	6.0	5.2 - 6.9
	2006	Greece	3	20467	1.5	0.3 - 4.3
	2005	Iceland	0	10931	0	0 - 3.4
	2005	Italy	32	86745	3.7	2.5 - 5.2
	2004	The Netherlands	0	2719	0	0 - 13.6
	2002	Norway	24	87753	2.7	1.8 - 4.1
	2004	Portugal	168	213923	7.9	6.7 - 9.1
	2004	Sweden	5	12359	4.0	1.3 - 9.4

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