Scrapie

Online resources

USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS) Veterinary Services. Scrapie Program. Background notes and factsheets, US Eradicaton program, Scrapie Program reports and updates

National Institute of Animal Agriculture. Eradicate Scrapie. Factsheets about Scrapie, and the Scrapie Eradicaton Program.

U.K. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Scrapie. Informational overview about Scrapie; also links to further information, questions & answers, incidence, the UK eradication program, etc.

Extension publications:

Update on Testing for Scrapie,
Voluntary Scrapie Flock Certification Program
Scrapie
GPA SCRAPIE RESEARCH EXPANDED
Golden Plains Area Web Site -- Program Goal to Eradicate Scrapie in Sheep
New Scrapie Interstate Shipment Requirements
National Voluntary Scrapie Flock Certification Program Standards Revised

For more Extension publications go to E-Answers, the searchable Extension Publications database.

Books

Scrapie
Prion Diseases

Journal articles

Bibliography of selected review articles

Newspaper articles (local)

NDSU helps unravel mad cow mystery Fargo Forum Jan. 04, 2004. NDSU Scrapie research may help with mad cow research.

NDSU winning against scrapie Fargo Forum Oct.. 04, 2002. Animal health officials are close to removing North Dakota State University's sheep flocks from quarantine.

Scrapie claims Fergus flock By Jeff Zent Fargo Forum May 2, 2002. LaVonne Beckler raised sheep near Fergus Falls, Minn., for 20 years.

Animal health officials seek to contain outbreak By Jeff Zent Fargo Forum April 24, 2002. State officials are tracking down sheep sold by North Dakota State University to contain a deadly disease found in the school’s flock.

USDA: Two Vermont sheep tested positive. Grand Forks Herald. April 12, 2002, Page 06, Source: Associated Press. U.S. Agriculture Department officials announced Thursday that two sheep from a flock seized a year ago tested positive for a condition that might be a derivative of mad cow disease.(see related Agweek article March 25, 2002, Page 4A)

Managing scrapie at NDSU. Agweek April 8, 2002, Page 33, Source: Jack Sullivan, Associated Press. A plan to manage scrapie in the North Dakota State University, Fargo, sheep flock could be the first in the country to rely on tests of each animal's inherent resistance to the fatal disease, the state veterinarian says

NDSU scrapie plan to rely on genetic testing Fargo Forum, April 4, 2002, pg C5

Scrapie plan breaks ground. First in country to rely on genetic testing. Grand Forks Herald. April 4, 2002

NDSU sheep herd quarantined. It's Happening at State, March 27, 2002, p1.

Scrapie forces NDSU to quarantine sheep. Agweek. March 25, 2002

Srapies no threat to people. Fargo Forum, March 23, 2002

Audit finds problems after NDSU scrapies outbreak, Fargo Forum, March 23, 2002

800 sheep quarantined: NDSU discovers fatal disease in herd. Fargo Forum, March 20, 2002, pg A10, A12

Scrapies forces quarantine of NDSU's sheep herd. Flock shows no symtoms. Grand Forks Herald, March 20, 2002