| In the mid-1700s, when it was first recognized in sheep, the disease was called scrapie, because suffering animals tended to rub their skins raw. |
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| The program also encourages producers to select for resistance and to use scrapie-resistant rams in flocks that have risk factors for scrapie. |
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| Their flock now boasts 35 ewes and 2 rams and, as of March, the sheep have been deemed scrapie free by inspectors. |
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| The only difference is that meat infected with scrapie is harmless to humans, whilst BSE kills. |
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| Healthy sheep inoculated with tissue from animals with scrapie took years to develop symptoms, far longer than for any other known infection. |
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| It is important that it be able to act in a timely manner if there are problems to do with scrapie, mad cow disease, or foot-and-mouth disease. |
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| Since 1997, almost 300 Quebec farmers have been ordered to destroy more than 12,000 sheep feared to be carrying the disease called scrapie. |
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| Sheep are susceptible to their own brain wasting disease called scrapie, but this disease has never been shown to be transmissible to humans. |
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| There are fears that BSE in sheep could mimic scrapie, which passes easily by horizontal infection from sheep to sheep. |
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| Many rams have already been genotyped for their ability to pass on resistance to scrapie. |
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| I have never accepted that BSE came as a result of cattle eating meat and bonemeal containing sheep infected with scrapie. |
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| Scientists originally believed the goat had scrapie, a disease similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy. |
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| It involved a nervous system disease called scrapie that had befallen a flock of about 36 Suffolk sheep in downtown Tucson. |
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| But some scientists are now worried that cases of BSE in sheep may have been misdiagnosed as scrapie. |
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| Prion diseases do not always move easily between species: scrapie does not infect people, for example. |
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| It should also make controlling scrapie, a nasty sheep disease that can remain undetected for years before symptoms show, much easier. |
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| The application also requests transitional measures regarding diagnostic techniques for scrapie, in view of limited laboratory capacity. |
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| Sheep scrapie, a similar prion disease, passes from ewes to their lambs. |
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| On 18 November 2005, Austria submitted a national scrapie control programme to the Commission. |
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| Finally, the Council integrated into the text all the provisions to be applied with regard to scrapie. |
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| We have done our scrapie genotyping program as well, which is adding credibility to our genetics. |
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| If the result of one of those examinations is positive, the animal shall be regarded as a positive scrapie case. |
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| Other such diseases are scrapie in sheep and chronic wasting disease in deer and elk. |
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| Accordingly, the national scrapie control programme of those Member States should be approved. |
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| An animal with scrapie may just be found dead without displaying premonitory clinical signs. |
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| In addition, Austria is likely to have a low prevalence or absence of scrapie on its territory. |
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| We need to go and find the prevalence of scrapie in Canada, because we still don't have a prevalence rate. |
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| All rams and ewes in scrapie affected flocks will be genotyped and susceptible animals will be culled. |
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| While the two diseases are hard to tell apart, BSE is not the same as scrapie. |
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| Even allowing for the suspicion that the true incidence is higher and there is underreporting it is clear that scrapie is an uncommon disease. |
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| Accordingly, it is necessary to prohibit the movement of ovine and caprine animals from holdings where scrapie is officially suspected. |
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| Pruritis, seen in scrapie, occurs also but is not usually a prominent sign. |
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| Chapter 5, by Martin Groschup et al, describes immunohistochemical analysis of the abnormal prion proteins in bovine spongiform encephalopathy and scrapie. |
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| It has been known for generations that scrapie, a similar brain disease, occurs in sheep-herds. |
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| It is necessary to ensure that brain material of an optimal quality and in sufficient quantity from positive scrapie cases is delivered to the laboratories carrying out confirmatory examinations. |
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| Number and geographical distribution of scrapie positive flocks. |
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| The work focuses on genotype testing of purebred sheep for resistance to scrapie, a fatal and transmittable disease, similar to BSE, which affects the central nervous system of sheep and goats. |
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| Monitoring requirements for holdings wishing to send breeding sheep and goats for intra-community trade should be amended to reflect the more vigourous approach being adopted to scrapie eradication. |
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| As regards the atypical scrapie, it further concluded that the apparent restricted dissemination of the agent in the organism of affected individuals could limit the transmissibility through milk. |
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| And they died an average of 89 days after infection. In contrast, hamsters that received IDX at the time they were infected with scrapie could break out of their cages in just over a minute. |
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| On 29 January 2004, Cyprus has applied for the granting of transitional measures in relation to eradication measures in scrapie infected holdings. |
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| In its opinion EFSA concludes that an operational definition of atypical scrapie is possible and provides the elements for a classification of scrapie cases. |
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| However, keeping scrapie in check was vitally important to the industry because an outbreak would have a devastating effect on breeders throughout Nova Scotia and Canada. |
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| For years now our rendering system has corresponded to the system which is to apply from 1 April 1997 in all EU Member States and which offers the greatest possible protection as regards BSE and scrapie. |
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| An infectious, persistent, and spontaneous disease, animals infected with scrapie must be quarantined and destroyed. |
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| Together with the CFIA, the industry has implemented the voluntary flock scrapie certification program and the national scrapie genotyping program. |
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| The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is conducting a questionnaire for Canadian sheep and goat producers to gather feedback on the national scrapie surveillance program. |
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| In the applicant's opinion, the Commission also infringed the precautionary principle at the risk management stage by failing to adopt any measure in order to restrict the risk of human exposure to classical scrapie. |
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| The contribution for the monitoring of TSEs concerns the implementation of rapid tests, and for the eradication of scrapie, the destruction of animals found positive and the genotyping of animals. |
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| Contrary to other TSEs such as scrapie or CWD, which are species-specific, introducing BSE-infected animals into the human food chain constitutes a public health risk. |
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| The research has concluded that the offspring of the infected sheep are more able to survive scrapie. |
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| This incurable disease, called scrapie, became a large problem, often killing one ewe in ten. |
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| Results of Western blot and immunolabeling throughout the neuraxis were consistent with atypical scrapie. |
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| Amino acid polymorphisms of PrP with reference to onset of scrapie in Suffolk and Corriedale sheep in Japan. |
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| Discrimination between scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy in sheep by molecular size immunoreactivity and glycoprofile of prion protein. |
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| Scrapie is a chronic disease of sheep which is transmitted by a filterable particle that is resistant to heat and formalin fixation. |
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| There is a chapter on bovine spongiform encephalopathy and Scrapie in sheep as well as a chapter on chronic wasting disease and various other animal prion diseases. |
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