| 1. | The suspected cause of scrapie is as strange as the symptoms.
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| 2. | Scrapie is a fatal neurological ailment similar to mad cow disease.
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| 3. | Scrapie has been in the United States since at least 1947.
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| 4. | Scrapie usually affects sheep around three to five years of age.
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| 5. | Research into resistance to scrapie and to other parasites is ongoing.
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| 6. | Scientists think it stems from scrapie, a disease that infects sheep.
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| 7. | Scrapie is less common in this country than in Britain.
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| 8. | This will inactivate the sheep scrapie prions, just as in rendering.
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| 9. | It also seems to show some promise in treating mice with scrapie.
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| 10. | The genetic mutation theory is even less likely than scrapie.
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