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 ...

Of the naturally occurring prion diseases identified to date, CWD is singular in its transmissibility and spread among captive and wild cervid populations. The routes of transmission have not been ...

A recent case report has stoked fears that deer can transmit universally fatal prions to humans. Outside experts remain skeptical. Reading time 5 minutes Earlier this year, a team of scientists ...

A new study of prion diseases, using a human cerebral organoid model, suggests there is a substantial species barrier preventing transmission of chronic wasting disease (CWD) from cervids—deer, elk ...

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 ...

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 ...

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), the diseases caused by proteinaceous infectious particles, or prions, comprise a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases that take their name from ...

Prions are proteins that cause fatal and incurable neurodegenerative diseases in humans and animals, some of which include sheep scrapie, chronic wasting disease (CWD) of cervids, Creutzfeldt-Jakob ...