scrapie in English

noun
1
a disease of sheep involving the central nervous system, characterized by a lack of coordination causing affected animals to rub against trees and other objects for support, and thought to be caused by a viruslike agent such as a prion.
Biologically, the symptoms of the relatively common disease of scrapie in sheep are very similar to those of BSE.

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1. Scrapie causes acute itching, progressive loss of motor coordination, paralysis and death.

2. Number, age distribution and geographical distribution of positive cases of BSE and scrapie.

3. 27 This disorder has been associated with consumption of SCRAPIE infected ruminant derived protein.

4. I cannot accept Amendment No 55 to Annex VIII, reducing the protection measures against scrapie.

5. Scientific Officer required to assist with a project researching intracellular events in scrapie-infected cells.

6. Into scrapie-affected cells they introduced tiny gold particles tethered to a protein that sticks to working ubiquitin.

7. It involved a nervous system disease called scrapie that had Befallen a flock of about 36 Suffolk sheep in downtown Tucson

8. Bse (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) is a progressive neurological disorder of cattle; its symptoms are similar to a disease of sheep, called scrapie

9. 27 There have never been Scrapie, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, African horse sickness, African swine fever, Vesicular stomatitis, Lumpy skin disease and Rift Valley fever in China.

10. 21 Several other viruses have shown similar effects in animals: canine distemper virus, Rous-associated virus type Borna disease virus, scrapie agents, and SMAM- an avian adenovirus from India.

11. Lack of water in combination with lack of forage inside the forest is driving the mouflon outside the forest and bringing them into contact with domestic sheep and goats, which might be infected with scrapie and pulmonary adenomatosis.

12. ‘In VRQ/VRQ sheep exposed to natural scrapie infection, PrPSc can be detected in ileal Peyer’s patches (PP) from 21 days post-partum and in other PPs of the alimentary canal and in the tonsil of the lamb by 60 days of age.

13. Furthermore, in that opinion, it stated, on the basis of a scientific study, that, in lambs of susceptible genotype which are exposed to an infection by a classical scrapie agent, the first signs of infection are detected in the first month of life in the alimentary canal and its associated lymphoid structures.

14. Ordinance of 27 June 1995 on epizootic diseases (OFE; RS 916.401), and in particular Articles 27 to 31 (markets, exhibitions), 34 to 37 (trade), 73 and 74 (cleaning and disinfection), 142 to 149 (rabies), 158 to 165 (tuberculosis), 166 to 169 (scrapie), 190 to 195 (ovine and caprine brucellosis), 196 to 199 (contagious agalactia), 200 to 203 (caprine arthritis/encephalitis), 233 to 235 (brucellosis in rams) and 297 (approval of markets, assembly centres and disinfection points) thereof;