| 31. | Previously, scrapie could be confirmed only by examining the brains of dead animals.
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| 32. | -- $ 15 million to eradicate scrapie, a brain disease in sheep.
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| 33. | Scrapie has been found in sheep for centuries.
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| 34. | The department hopes to eliminate scrapie by 2010.
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| 35. | Scrapie is a member of a family of ailments that includes mad cow disease.
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| 36. | Sheep develop a spongiform ailment known as scrapie.
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| 37. | No evidence indicates scrapie is infectious to humans.
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| 38. | "Post mortem " examination is important for the diagnosis of scrapie.
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| 39. | Then they mixed it with unlabeled prion protein isolated from scrapie-infected hamster brains.
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| 40. | It turns out scrapie is remarkably like mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.
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