The detection of an exotic and highly lethal disease in sheep, called scrapie, has caused strong concern and alarm throughout the entire production sector, which largely lacks knowledge of this pathology and which already poses a severe inconvenience for the sector in the export of meat and dairy products. Outbreaks of this progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disease affecting sheep and goats were detected last week in establishments in Santa Fe and Entre Ríos, after the natural death without symptoms of animals was recorded. The Dorper breed sheep had been imported in 2021 and 2022 from Paraguay. This situation set off alarms in the sector, as it not only represents the loss of Argentina's disease-free sanitary status, but also, being a pathology non-existent in the country, it opens up the unprecedented challenge of combating, preventing, and understanding it. Precisely, these are the aspects that concern the producer, breeder, and vice president of the Hampshire Down ...