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 ...
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is one of the most mysterious neurological disorders known to medicine. As recent discussions have ...
Chronic wasting disease may have been identified in B.C.'s Okanagan, potentially marking the spread of the fatal prion ...
The Province of Manitoba has launched an online interactive tool to provide hunters and landowners with real-time access to ...
The B.C. government says it is investigating a potential case of chronic wasting disease in a deer harvested in the Okanagan ...
Chronic wasting disease, a prion protein disease that is fatal in elk, deer, and other cervids, has spread rapidly across the ...
Rather than being genetic or acquired, Johnston's CJD developed when normal prions in her brain spontaneously began ...
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 ...
The Pennsylvania Game Commission hosted an informational program on Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) and its impact on ...
The α-synuclein protein can adopt several different conformations that cause neurodegeneration. Different α-synuclein conformers cause at least three distinct α-synucleinopathies: multiple system ...