'Mad sheep' disease gets research funding

June 20, 1997

A Pounds 3.8 MILLION grant for research into scrapie, the sheep equivalent of "mad cow disease", has been announced. The funding, from the Medical Research Council and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, will be used at the Institute for Animal Health in Newbury and Edinburgh.

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