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 ...

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Two recent cases of prion disease in the U.S. may have been caused by contaminated deer meat, though the connection is still unproven. Reading time 3 minutes A new study might point to the first signs ...

A new study of prion diseases, using a human cerebral organoid model, suggests there is a substantial species barrier preventing transmission of chronic wasting disease (CWD) from cervids -- deer, elk ...

Prion Disease is currently an invariably fatal condition without treatment or cure. Despite multiple prior treatment studies, including quinacrine, doxycycline, and pentosan polysulfate, no ...

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 ...

Each fall, millions of hunters across North America make their way into forests and grasslands to hunt deer. Over the winter, people chow down on the venison steaks, sausage, and burgers made from the ...

Human prion disease, also called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), results from the misfolding of a normal prion protein—an essential protein present in everyone. The misfolded form of the protein, the ...

Prion diseases, also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, have been prominently in the news lately. The best known among this group is mad cow disease, but other animals can get other ...

Experts aren't sure if "zombie deer disease" can spread to humans, but they're concerned about the rising number of cases and the potential of humans being impacted by exposure to infected deer.