a fatal disease of sheep characterized by chronic itching and loss of muscular control and progressive degeneration of the central nervous system
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scrapie::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Photoreceptor neurons in some mouse strains are destroyed by scrapie infections.
From the newscientist.com
They've been implicated as the cause of diseases such as mad cow and scrapie in sheep.
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If both ram and ewe have two such genes, all their lambs will have scrapie.
From the time.com
Like BSE and scrapie, this is caused by prions, but it mainly affects deer.
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Scrapie has been found in sheep and has not been shown to be transmissible to humans.
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They found evidence of a new illness resembling the sheep disease scrapie.
From the edition.cnn.com
The mice that did not get the nucleotide all developed lethal scrapie 180 days later.
From the newscientist.com
One had received brain from a sheep that had scrapie before 1975, pre-BSE.
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And he is adamant that Britain's plans to eradicate scrapie could backfire.
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- A fatal disease of sheep characterized by chronic itching and loss of muscular control and progressive degeneration of the central nervous system
- Scrapie is a fatal, degenerative disease that affects the nervous systems of sheep and goats. It is one of several transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), which are related to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or "mad cow disease") and chronic wasting disease of deer. ...
- A fatal, degenerative neurological disease of sheep and goats. The similarity of scrapie to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) (mad cow) disease in cattle, with the possibility of subsequent transmission to humans, has caused the Food and Drug Administration to propose regulations to ...
- A TSE that has afflicted sheep since the 1700s or before. Not known to be transmitted to humans.
- Long established disease of sheep that causes intense irritation: cause unknown, thought to be neither bacteria or virus. (see BSE)
- A transmissible nervous disease in sheep and goats with an incubation period of between two and four years. Known in Europe since the 18th century.
- A disease, originally of sheep, but transmissible to other animals, characterized by neurological degeneration caused by accumulation of a structural variant of PrP.
- A disease of sheep; a spongiform encephalopathy See proteinaceous infectious particle.
- The English name for the prion disease of sheep, which in Germany was traditionally called "Traberkrankheit" (trotter disease).
