As goat owners, understanding diseases that can affect our herds is crucial for maintaining healthy animals and preventing the spread of illnesses. In this episode, Deborah Niemann is joined by Dr.

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 ...

INRA scientists have shown for the first time that the pathogens responsible for scrapie in small ruminants (prions) have the potential to convert the human prion protein from a healthy state to a ...

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 ...

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.

A dead sheep infected with scrapie -- a degenerative disease of the nervous system similar to mad cow disease -- has been found in western Japan, an official said on Thursday. The animal died on March ...

British scientists claim to have discovered a "new" form of brain disease scrapie in a research flock of New Zealand sheep in Britain. But Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry staff here are saying ...

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 ...

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 ...

The pathogens responsible for scrapie in small ruminants (prions) have the potential to convert the human prion protein from a healthy state to a pathological state, researchers have discovered for ...