Affecting both people and animals, prion diseases are degenerative brain disorders that can debilitate or kill their victims. The most common form of prion disease affecting humans is sporadic ...
Health officials in Hood River County, Ore., are investigating three cases of a rare and fatal brain disease known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Two people have died and a third person is showing ...
CLEVELAND - A new sporadic prion protein disease has been discovered. Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), as it has been named, is the second type of complete sporadic disease to be ...
A small Canadian province feared it had a mystery neurological illness on its hands. The search for answers set off a battle ...
An Ayrshire farm has been placed under alert after mad cow disease was detected in one of its cattle - but can humans catch it, and what do the symptoms look like? Mad cow disease is a fatal and ...
POWELL — Prion disease experts are concerned about spillover of chronic wasting disease into other species of wildlife, livestock and even humans from direct contact with or environmental ...
August 24, 2010 — A novel sporadic prion protein disease, variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), with distinct features has been described as the first new prion disease since sporadic ...