Scrapie is a prion disease with a long incubation period (2–5 years) that affects the brain and spinal cord of sheep and goats. The US has not had a reported case of scrapie since January 2021 ...

"Scrapie" is the old Scottish shepherds' name for a disease of their sheep which has been known for several centuries. It is the original example of a group of diseases, known as the ...

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What caused a once thriving band of bighorn sheep in the Middle Missouri Breaks to vanish? Numerous studies have attempted to ...

Figure 4: Immunolabeling for PrP or FDC networks in spleens from BM-reconstituted mice, 10 weeks after challenge with scrapie ... at the terminal stage of the disease. One half of the spleen ...