Scrapie used in a sentence

Scrapie in a sentence as a noun

Kuru, Mad cow disease and scrapie come to mind.

I can't recall if it was already proven that bovine CJD came from feeding them scrapie sheep?

For example, CJD comes from mad cow - so mad cow is transmissible, but scrapie seems to both arise spontaneously in flocks and be transmissible between sheep

But: susceptibility to scrapie is highly genetic and easily tested for.

[1] Brown, Paul, et al. "New studies on the heat resistance of hamster-adapted scrapie agent: threshold survival after ashing at 600°C suggests an inorganic template of replication.

> A slow-acting virus, like that of scrapie in sheep, is introduced into the human body via the tattooing needle and makes its way to the brain, where within a few years it causes the afflicted to steal cars, burgle houses, and assault people.