the most common but still very rare prion disease in humans. According to the report, the man had a friend at the same hunting lodge who had also recently died of CJD. And both men had reportedly ...

The deaths of two people and illness of one from a possible fatal and rare brain disease clustering in Oregon have public ...

Prion diseases are a group of rare neurodegenerative disorders that can affect both humans and animals. They’re caused by abnormally folded proteins in the brain, particularly the misfolding of ...

A woman's human growth hormone treatments in childhood may have sealed her fate decades later, according to a new case report ...

However, organoids exposed to human prions that cause a related condition, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, quickly became infected. The finding suggests that a substantial species barrier prevents CWD ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is one of several prion diseases — uncommon neurodegenerative disorders affecting humans that are characterized by an abnormal folding of proteins in the brain ...

In fact, recent research published in the June issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases found that CWD prions fail to infect human brain tissue. This study backs up years of previous research that has ...

Prion diseases are a group of different conditions that affect your brain and nervous system. They can cause severe dementia or problems with body control that get worse very quickly. They're rare ...

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 ...

“NPDPSC collects tissue samples and clinical information from cases of prion disease to monitor its incidence and investigate possible cases in which these diseases have been acquired from 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.