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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 ...

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The state of Florida has stepped up surveillance after confirmation of new cases of a contagious brain disorder in deer similar to mad cow disease.

Between COVID, HIV, Dengue, Ebola, and emerging flu variants, the last thing the world needs is another type of pathogen, let alone with no treatment or cure. But, although rare, prion diseases, such ...

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In early spring 2024, a homeowner in North Spokane found a dead white-tailed deer in their backyard and called the Washington ...

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Officials won't know whether the deer was ill until Kentucky Fish and Wildlife biologists test tissue samples.

Prion diseases such as variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and scrapie have prolonged incubation periods due to unknown molecular mechanisms. Polymorphisms in the prion protein gene are known to affect ...

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 ...

Prions that cause scrapie, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease do not initiate an immune response, probably because they do not contain nucleic acids. So immune ...