The number of deaths caused by prion diseases reaches about 30,000 annually. Only 5 months pass from the diagnosis of seemingly healthy patients to the fatal outcome of this neurodegenerative ...

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 ...

When wildlife gets sick, it might seem like a faraway problem to people living in developed cities and suburbs. However, some diseases pose a potential risk to humans, as well as damaging wildlife ...

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 ...

Two people have died and a third remains under investigation after health officials in Hood River County identified multiple cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare but deadly brain disorder ...

A female White-tail deer (Florida Wildlife Commission photo by Tim Donovan). Each fall, millions of hunters across North America make their way into forests and grasslands to kill deer. During the ...

Another case of an always-fatal deer disease has been found in eastern Washington. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Monday that it had confirmed a case of chronic wasting ...

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 ...

Each fall, millions of hunters across North America make their way into forests and grasslands to kill deer. Over the winter, people chow down on the venison steaks, sausage, and burgers made from the ...