Scientists from the French National Institute of Agronomic Research (or INRA) have shown for the first time that pathogens, called prions, responsible for scrapie in small ruminants like sheep, have ...

More accurate genetic tests for diagnosing scrapie disease in sheep have been developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Clay Center, Neb. They believe this achievement will ...

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Five goats from an Ottawa County farm have been diagnosed with a fatal brain disease similar to mad cow in cattle and chronic wasting disease in deer, but state agriculture officials said it is not ...

Sheep believed to be resistant to scrapie are succumbing to atypical infections and a newly identified strain of the disease. Eradication programmes based on selective breeding should be reappraised.

Why was this paper controversial and how robust do the findings look in light of contemporary understanding of scrapie? In 1962, it was known that scrapie could be artificially transmitted by ...

Could the recent suspicious illnesses and deaths of prominent Filipinos, who reportedly underwent stem cell treatment in Germany, using cells from sheep as the source material, be related to scrapie ...

The deadly brain condition known as "mad cow disease" could potentially be transmitted to humans by sheep carrying scrapie, new research suggests. Scientists have concluded that scrapie - the sheep ...

A new form of the sheep disease scrapie has been found in Irish sheep, the Department of Agriculture and Food confirmed last night. Confirmation came 24 hours after the British Department of ...

The government is looking at ways to reduce the impact of outbreaks of classical scrapie on livestock businesses while still preventing the spread of this fatal brain disease. Yesterday (21 June), ...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says some sheep in Alberta have been infected with scrapie, a fatal disease that affects the animals' nervous system. As we navigate through unprecedented times, ...