| It involved a nervous system disease called scrapie that had befallen a flock of about 36 Suffolk sheep in downtown Tucson. |
| I have never accepted that BSE came as a result of cattle eating meat and bonemeal containing sheep infected with scrapie. |
| Many rams have already been genotyped for their ability to pass on resistance to scrapie. |
| Their flock now boasts 35 ewes and 2 rams and, as of March, the sheep have been deemed scrapie free by inspectors. |
| There are fears that BSE in sheep could mimic scrapie, which passes easily by horizontal infection from sheep to sheep. |
| Since 1997, almost 300 Quebec farmers have been ordered to destroy more than 12,000 sheep feared to be carrying the disease called scrapie. |
