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Scrapie Program - Monthly Report - USDA/APHIS

National Center for Animal Health Programs - Eradication and Surveillance Team

 

ATYPICAL SCRAPIE IN SMALL RUMINANTS: CONSIDERATION OF THE CURRENT PRECAUTIONARY RISK MANAGEMENT MEASURES

Food Standards Agency (UK) - June 15, 2006

 

New warning on mutton as brain disease hits sheep
Food experts say that BSE-style illness might affect humans, our correspondent reports

The Times (UK) - June 14, 2006
 

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCRAPIE

United States Animal Health Association - 2005 (pdf)

 

A newly identified type of scrapie agent can naturally infect sheep with resistant PrP genotypes - Le Dur, et al.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - October 20, 2005 (pdf)

 

Analysis of unusual accumulation of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease cases in Orava and Liptov regions (northern Slovak focus) 1983-2000 - Mad'ar, et al.

Central European Journal of Public Health - March 2003 (abstract)

 

Imported Belgium/Netherlands Sheep Test Results

United States Department of Agriculture/Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service - April 2002 (pdf)

 

Scrapie strain variation and mutation - Bruce

British Medical Bulletin - 1993 (pdf)

 

"Clusters" of CJD in Slovakia: the first laboratory evidence of scrapie - Mitrova, et al.

European Journal of Epidemiology - September 1991

 

Sheep consumption: a possible source of spongiform encephalopathy in humans - Davanipour, et al.

Neuroepidemiology - 1985

 

Oral transmission of kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and scrapie to nonhuman primates - Gibbs, et al.

Journal of Infectious Diseases - August 1980 (abstract)

 

UNCONVENTIONAL VIRUSES AND THE ORIGIN AND DISAPPEARANCE OF KURU - Gajdusek

Nobel Lecture - December 13, 1976 (pdf)