I have said in the past said that diseases do not read books. This means medical science may have described and documented ...

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

A small Oregon county has been struck by one of the rarest but scariest ailments known to exist. Health officials in Hood River County have reported an unusual cluster of people coming down with ...

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 ...

At its simplest, sickle cell disease is a problem caused by the smallest unit in genetics: a change in a single nucleotide—one of about three billion in the human genome—within a gene that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Late last year, experts confirmed Yellowstone National Park’s first case of the infection — officially known as chronic wasting disease — after a deer carcass found in the Wyoming area of ...

While there is no conclusive evidence that CWD can directly infect humans, the possibility remains a point of concern. Prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and “mad ...

Recent research shows that the barrier to a spillover into humans is less formidable than previously believed and that the prions causing the disease may be evolving to become more able to infect ...