Scrapie

/skɹˈæpa‍ɪ/

/skɹˈæpaɪ/

[noun]

Scrapie

[NOUN]

an infectious and often fatal disease that mainly affects the nervous system of sheep

Examples

1. Number 5 Factors Just like the mad cow disease, scrapie, in goats and sheep or Creutzfeldt-Jakobs disease in humans, CWD is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.

2. There’s another prion disease in sheep called scrapie, and it’s possible that scrapie prions may have jumped to cows through their food and caused this whole mess.

3. There’s another prion disease in sheep called scrapie, and it’s possible that scrapie prions may have jumped to cows through their food and caused this whole mess.

4. Some TSEs you may have heard of before include Mad Cow Disease or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in cattle, scrapie in goats and sheep, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in humans.