Ensuring food security and control of sheep and goat scrapie

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the control of animal carcasses and the detection of such a disease as scrapie. For our country, this animal disease remains quite rare, but at the same time it should not be overlooked. This is due to the fact that there are regular purchases of breeding cattle from abroad, and this is a risk of importing an infected animal. The relevance of the work is that the disease of sheep and goats-scrapie can not be detected at very early stages of its development. Symptomatic manifestations do not appear immediately, there are no clear clinical characteristics, which is why this disease can not be diagnosed for a long time. To assess the health status and predict the quality of products obtained, new approaches are needed to study the products of sheep and goat slaughter. Great importance is given to standard methods of studying, identifying certain patterns in clinical, anamnestic, morphological, metric and anatomical indicators of the animal body. Using these indicators and changing their dynamic characteristics, it is possible to make significant adjustments in the definition of this disease, which would allow us to develop a number of rules for modern veterinary and sanitary evaluation of animal slaughter products.

Scrapie in Eastern Libya: Case Report in Sheep

“…According to the OIE, scrapie is the eighth cause of sheep and goat loss worldwide (Taranukha et al, 2020). It can cause severe economic damage to the sheep industry due to the nature of the disease with extraordinary properties of the agent and the disease, such as (a) long incubation periods (months, years, and even decades) that allows the silent spread of the disease; (b) resistance of the agent to high temperature; (c) resistance of the agent to most common disinfectants as well as the resistance to ultraviolet and ionizing radiation.…”