> There is no scientific evidence to indicate that scrapie poses a
> risk to human health. There is no epidemiologic evidence that
> scrapie of sheep and goats is transmitted to humans, such as
> through contact on the farm, at slaughter plants, or butcher
> shops.
> http://www.aphis.usda.gov/lpa/pubs/f...ahscrapie.html
>
> Scrapie is specific to sheep and goats. Scrapie does not infect
humans.
> Stop with the scare-mongering, dummy.

They're worried that the goat may have gotten the
bovine version:

"Meanwhile, tests are continuing in the case of a French
goat slaughtered in 2002, which experts think may have
developed BSE [See comment]."

"On 30 Nov 2004, EU's Spongiform Encephalopathy
Advisory Committee (SEAC) was informed that a definitive
interpretation of the French data on a goat suspected of
BSE could not be provided by the Community Reference
Laboratory (CRL) for TSEs (based in Weybridge, England)
until further data from mouse bioassays were available in
about 2 months. Those results are anticipated with great interest."


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