Government scientists have shown that it is possible to infect cattle with a BSE-like disease through injecting scrapie-infected material from sheep. This may bring scientists closer to identifying ...

NGLAND has struggled with scrapie since the mid-1700s. In July the British government took the highly dramatic step of requiring all sheep and goats even suspected of being infected with the disease ...

Animal health officials are close to removing North Dakota State University's sheep flocks from quarantine. Sheep at NDSU's main station farm in Fargo and at the university's research center in ...

A government-backed study carried out at Cambridge University by researcher Gabriel Horn indicates that scrapie may have caused the outbreak of the mad cow disease BSE (bovine spongiform ...

Free genetic testing is available to New York sheep owners in the state's effort to eliminate the disease scrapie. The free testing is made available through the New York Ram Project, a plan aimed at ...

Scrapie is a disease of the nerves and muscles of sheep, so named because bleating victims rub themselves against fence posts or wire to relieve the itching that goes with it, and in doing so scrape ...

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle, scrapie in sheep, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, are all fatal neurological ...

SAN ANGELO – A switch from plastic to metal ear tags could spell trouble for sheep shearers and the animals they shear if the tags are incorrectly applied, said a shearing expert. Dr. Reid ...