Scrapie is a prion disease with a long incubation period (2–5 years) that affects the brain and spinal cord of sheep and goats. The US has not had a reported case of scrapie since January 2021 ...

For many years, scrapie from different sheep breeds and TSE diseases from other animals, e.g. scrapie from goats and BSE from cattle, have been used to infect laboratory mice. In these mice the ...

and their two- to three-fold greater volume of milk production compared with sheep. The much lower incidence of scrapie in goats and their "Mad Cow"-free status should also please both ...