Two friends who hunted deer together at the same lodge contracted an extremely rare brain disease and died, raising fears that they may have been infected by contaminated venison. A team of ...

Wildlife officials in the U.S. and Canada report cases of chronic wasting diseases where it hasn't been detected before.

A substantial species barrier prevents chronic wasting disease (CWD), a cervid prion disease with unknown zoonotic potential, from being transmitted to humans, new NIH data suggested. Healthy human ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND - A new sporadic prion protein disease has been discovered. Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), as it has been named, is the second type of complete sporadic disease to be ...

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 ...

Researchers in a laboratory established to find a treatment for prion diseases are announcing that they have made a step forward in mice. Collaborating with a genome-editing lab, they have developed a ...

A study from Bochum describes a mammal-specific domain of the prion protein and offers new approaches for research into neurodegenerative diseases. At first, they cause memory deficits and ...

Throughout Season 10 of Chicago Med, Dr. Caitlin Lenox (Sarah Ramos) has emerged as one of Gaffney's finest recruits. As she continues to expertly call the shots in the Emergency Department, viewers ...

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A Michigan grandmother has died from a rare degenerative brain disorder similar to mad cow disease – which has a 100% fatality rate and no cure. Arlene VonMyhr, 55, and her husband, Gary, celebrated ...