Can genetic research scuttle scrapie? Breeding sheep that resist the deadly disease.

From: Agricultural Research | Date: November 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Contagious, incurable, and fatal, scrapie is a chief disease priority for the sheep industry. It affects international trade and domestic markets and costs U.S. producers an estimated $20 million every year.

Now Agricultural Research Service (ARS) researchers in Clay Center, Nebraska, have developed more accurate genetic tests for the disease. They believe this achievement will promote scrapie's eventual eradication.

Like chronic wasting disease in elk or mad cow disease in cattle, scrapie is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE). Its name reflects the ...

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