| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The contention that scrapie is an infectious disease caused by a filterable agent was accepted with scepticism until 1938, when W.S. Gordon, then a deputy director of the Moredun Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland repeated the experiments of Cuille and Chelle using 697 animals, of which some 200 developed scrapie [152,278].
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