D6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 24,1981
USDA destroys three sheep flocks
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S.
Department of Agriculture of
ficials said two sheep flocks in
Wisconsin and one in Virginia
totaling 250 sheep have been
destroyed to stop the spread of
scrapie, a slow-acting but in
variably fatal disease of sheep and
goats.
Dr. Jack R. Pitcher, a
veterinarian with USDA’s Animal
and Plant Health Inspection
Service, said the two flocks in
Wisconsin were located by USD A
veterinarians while they were
tracing the movement of sheep into
and out of another flock that had
been found infected. The Virginia
flock was destroyed because
scrapie was recently diagnosed in
tissue from a dead ram.
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“In Wisconsin, USDA officials
learned that an infected ram had
been purchased from a flock that
had been found infected and was
destroyed last July near Janesville
in Rock County,” Pitcher said.
“The USDA found the owner had
also sold sheep to a person near
Custer, in Portage County, Wis.
That sale included a ewe that was
twin to the originally infected
ram.”
The veterinarians found definite
evidence of scrapie infection at the
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of the same scrapie outbreak,
Pitcher said.
“To stop the outbreak, officials
ordered the flocks in Hock and
Portage Counties destroyed,” he
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with scrapie infection
said. “There were 50 sheep in Rock
County and 100 in Portage in the
two flocks. Owners were paid
indemnities to compensate for
their losses.”
In Warren County, Va., a flock of
100 sheep and three goats was
destroyed because' scrapie was
diagnosed in a ram that died about
two years earlier.
“Normally, this diagnosis would
have been made promptly through
a microscopic examination of the
ram’s brain tissues,” Pitcher said.
“However, the tissues had been *
damaged by freezing before they
arrived at the Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service’s
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Laboratories at Ames, lowa.
Laboratory scientists had to at
tempt to culture the virus in live
mice, wait for the mice to die, and
then examine their brain tissues
with a microscope. This took two
years.”
Scrapie attacks the central
nervous system of the sheep and •
goats. It may take months, or even
years, before clinical symptoms
appear. During that time the
disease may be spread to other
flocks when infected animals are
bought and sold.
“An essential part of USDA’s
scrapie eradication program is
intensive tracing of animal
movements and monitoring
\4k
suspectedhocks,” Pitcher said.
Affected • animals mpy con
stantly rub against fixed objects,
apparently to relieve intense it
ching. This leaves the'skin raw and
bare of wool. Animals may also
show a lack of coordination, and
their general physical condition
degenerates. Pitcher said.
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