MODEL RELEASED. Scrapie infected organ storage. Technician views a sample bottle containing animal organs infected with scrapie. The bottle has been in cold storage. Scrapie,an infection of sheep and goats,is caused by a virus-like prion which damages nerve function. Sheep symptoms include glazed eyes and uncontrolled tremor. Prions also cause BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) in cattle,known as "mad cow" disease. BSE appeared in Britain around 1985. BSE cattle in turn have been linked to the fatal new variant Creutzfeldt- Jakob disease (vCJD) in humans. Photographed at the Institute for Animal Health Laboratories in Edinburgh,Scotland | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / King-Holmes, James |
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