Sentences with phrase «from scrapie»
In the US, consumer rights groups won a ban on the purchase of meat from scrapie flocks because no one could rule out absolutely the possibility of transmission to humans.
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By this time it was known that BSE was a prion disease but whether the infective prion came from scrapie - infected sheep or another source is still not known.
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«Scrapie prions may even protect humans [from BSE].»
At GTC, the scrapie - free goats brought in from New Zealand are penned within a 190 - acre enclosure on a 300 - acre plot in Charlton, Mass..
The researchers then exposed these transgenic mice to prion isolates collected from sick animals, including classical and atypical strains of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (i.e., mad cow disease), sheep Scrapie, and deer Chronic Wasting Disease.
To test their findings, the researchers inoculated transgenic mice with prions from sheep with scrapie, another prion disease causing neurological damage, and determined that these prions have dramatically different biological properties.
While the origins of BSE remain obscure, one possibility is that the cattle developed the disease by being fed meat and bone meal contaminated with prions from the sheep with the disease, scrapie.