As goat owners, understanding diseases that can affect our herds is crucial for maintaining healthy animals and preventing the spread of illnesses. In this episode, Deborah Niemann is joined by Dr.

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Why was this paper controversial and how robust do the findings look in light of contemporary understanding of scrapie? In 1962, ...

LAKEWOOD — The Colorado Department of Agriculture reminds Colorado producers to tag and identify their sheep and goats for scrapie prior to a change of ownership or going to a livestock show. “Lambing ...

More consumers are developing a taste for goat cheese, milk, and meat as they become aware of the high protein and great taste of these products. While U.S. goat producers are enjoying this steady ...

The pathogens responsible for scrapie in small ruminants (prions) have the potential to convert the human prion protein from a healthy state to a pathological state, researchers have discovered for ...

Sheep believed to be resistant to scrapie are succumbing to atypical infections and a newly identified strain of the disease. Eradication programmes based on selective breeding should be reappraised.

SALT LAKE CITY — U.S. Department of Agriculture — Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has completed a standards update that officials believe will be more efficient in disease ...

British scientists claim to have discovered a "new" form of brain disease scrapie in a research flock of New Zealand sheep in Britain. But Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry staff here are saying ...

The deadly brain condition known as "mad cow disease" could potentially be transmitted to humans by sheep carrying scrapie, new research suggests. Scientists have concluded that scrapie - the sheep ...