SCRAPIE compensation is likely to be tripled in a bid to end under-reporting of the disease which scientists fear could be masking BSE in the national sheep flock. The government also plans to open ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A postal survey of British sheep farmers provided information on the proportion of farms that experienced their first case of scrapie in each ...

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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 ...

TOUGH new rules to tackle scrapie could lead to the destruction of entire flocks. Under a new scheme that came into effect yesterday, all farmers with confirmed cases of scrapie will have to cull the ...

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 ...

Scrapie prion pathogens in the farm environment could be a long-term source of infection to sheep and cattle, according to ADAS scientists. Tests carried out at a sheep farm with a detailed history of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Scrapie is a fatal transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) of sheep, endemic in the UK for centuries. Interest in the disease has been ...

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 ...

A NEW form of scrapie, the prion disease that affects sheep, could derail European Union plans to breed scrapie out of Europe’s flock. Since 1998, Norway has been finding scrapie-positive sheep with ...

Prion proteins are known to cause scrapie – a neurodegenerative condition. It is capable of debilitating damage to the nervous system. Researchers have successfully devised a treatment for this ...