After silently lurking for almost 50 years, a prion disease erupted in the brain of a woman in the US, triggering a rapid and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

They base their concerns on experimental studies, the history of other prion diseases transmitting from animals to humans (which is extremely rare) and the potential impacts of climate change.

the most common prion disease in humans. What made the case most notable: the man had a hunting friend in the same lodge who had recently died of CJD and had eaten venison from the same deer ...

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.

Prion disease is an umbrella term for a group of fatal and currently untreatable neurodegenerative diseases that not only affect humans, but also wild and captive animals. These diseases include ...

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 ...

This is a first-in-human, randomized, multicenter study in participants with prion disease. Eligible participants will receive ION717 and a placebo. The order of doses will be randomized and blinded ...