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 ...

The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) is currently seeking laboratory services to test for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and scrapie. The department is inviting tenders ...

The Department of Agriculture is seeking tenders for sampling spoons used for BSE and scrapie sampling in its rapid testing laboratory. Currently, the Department uses two separately designed spoons ...

Episode 151For the Love of Goats As goat owners, understanding diseases that can affect our herds is crucial for maintaining ...

Ensuring a genotyped ram has been purchased for your flock is an important aspect of participating in the Sheep Improvement Scheme (SIS). All applicants will be required to carry out the genotyped ram ...

Recent headlines hyping impending human doom caused a decades-old fatal disease of deer and elk that was first discovered on the Colorado State University foothills campus in Fort Collins to go viral.

1 One Health Division, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada 2 Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Health Sciences, ...

Sheep farmers in Great Britain, who usually sell sheep to Northern Ireland buyers, are being encouraged to apply for the new scrapie monitoring ‘qualifying status’ ahead of the 31 December deadline.

Pennsylvania State Veterinarian Kevin Brightbill is encouraging sheep and goat farmers to get on board with tagging and paperwork requirements designed to track scrapie. Brightbill said the measures ...

The prion diseases, or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), are fatal neurodegenerative disorders that include scrapie in sheep, mad cow disease in cattle, and kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob ...