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 ...

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.

Goats are tough, spirited animals, but they're no match for scrapie, a form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. Now, with a "helping hand" from science, the animals' plight could take a turn ...

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 ...

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Scrapie prion pathogens in the farm environment could be a long-term source of infection to sheep and cattle, according to ADAS scientists. Tests carried out at a sheep farm with a detailed history of ...

Scrapie infected ewes may be able to pass the disease to their offspring via colostrum and milk, according to new research published last week by BioMed Central. According to the results of the study, ...

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 ...