| sheep consumption: a possible source of spongiform encephalopathy in humans. | a fatal spongiform encephalopathy of sheep and goats (scrapie) shares many characteristics with creutzfeldt-jakob disease (cjd), a similar dementing illness of humans. to investigate the possibility that cjd is acquired by ingestion of contaminated sheep products, we collected information on production, slaughtering practices, and marketing of sheep in pennsylvania. the study revealed that sheep were usually marketed before central nervous system signs of scrapie are expected to appear; breeds k ... | 1985 | 3915057 |