Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus (JSRV) is a betaretrovirus which is the causative agent of a contagious lung cancer in sheep, called ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma. JSRV is the virus that is the cause of the contagious lung tumors in sheep called ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma (OPA). The disease has also been called "jaagsiekte", after the Afrikaans words for "chase" ("jaag") and "sickness" ("siekte"), to describe the respiratory distress observed in an animal out of breath from being chased, indicating the breathing difficulty experienced by infected sheep. Transmission of virus is through aerosol spread between sheep. The exogenous infectious form of
European Coalition to End Animal Experiments European Coalition to End Animal Experiments The European Coalition to End Animal Experiments (ECEAE) is a European organisation actively operating in favor of animal rights and in particularly, an abolishment of testing on animals. The focus is on animal testing in cosmetics and experiments with primates. The ECEAE was created in 1990 by national and regional organisations against the testing of cosmetics on animals. 18 European animal rights organisations comprise the ECEAE. The ECEA releases publications, organizes violent free actions and campaigns and lobbies in the European Parliament, against animal testing. Their goal is to form a lobby group with