LEUCOENCEPHALOPATHY IN MINK.

In a herd of standard minks 30 cases of leucoencephalopathy were demonstrated in the mink kits in the years 1962 and 1963. The disease is assumed to be hereditary and due to a sub-lethal, recessive, autosomal factor. A comparison with the forms of diffuse sclerosis found in man demonstrated that the disease, as it appeared in minks, bore a striking resemblance to the so-called metachromatic type of leucoencephalopathy.