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Bringing scrapie under control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2017

M Baylis
M Baylis*
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University of Liverpool, Neston, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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Scrapie is an invariably fatal, infectious disease of adult sheep and goats characterised by degeneration of the central nervous system. It is one of the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE), a disease family which includes Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle, Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in deer, and Kuru and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) in humans. Scrapie was first discovered in European sheep in the early 18th Century and is now present in many sheep populations worldwide.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2006 , March 2006 , pp. 200
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Copyright © The American Society of International Law 2016

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