Also like BSE, the form of the prion without a sugar attached to it had a lower molecular weight than the form found in scrapie. But the ratio of prions with different numbers of sugars on them ...

SHEEP fed BSE-infected cow brain have passed on the infection in blood transfusions to at least one other sheep, say British researchers. Although the findings are preliminary, they raise fears ...

The risk to humans developing variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) could be far greater if the brain-wasting disease Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) has entered the sheep population.

Government scientists have found direct evidence to support the theory that the BSE epidemic was originally caused by feeding cattle the rendered carcasses of sheep infected with scrapie.

The sheep form of TSE, scrapie, was first noted in the U.S. in the 1940s. So far, the U.S. has been free from the cattle version, BSE or mad cow disease. Detwiler’s job is to keep it that way.

BERLIN, Germany (CNN) -- Germany's agriculture minister has called for sheep to be tested for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease. "If the scientists recommend it, I regard ...

Scientists believe that test results which sparked fears that a form of BSE, so-called "mad cow disease", had spread to British sheep are important but not conclusive.

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European Union scientists are investigating the possibility of an epidemic of a BSE-type disease in the sheep population. ''It's an area we are concerned about and there is a scientific risk ...

FRESH questions have been raised about whether BSE can pass to sheep after officials yesterday confirmed they had transferred the disease to an animal considered most resistant to it. It is the ...

A limited amount of research into whether sheep can suffer from a form of BSE is being carried out in the Republic, it emerged yesterday as the British government announced it was looking for the ...

BERLIN, Germany (CNN) -- Germany's agriculture minister has called for sheep to be tested for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease. "If the scientists recommend it, I regard ...