Zombie deer disease: two hunters may have been victims
The chronic wasting disease that affects the brains of deer, also nicknamed "zombie deer disease", could be linked to the ...
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a promising treatment being tested
Tested on six patients, this treatment would have stabilized the progression of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in half of them. THE ESSENTIAL ...
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Creutzfeld-Jakob: INRAE recognizes a death due to a laboratory accident
Contamination of Creutzfeldt-Jakob in the prion research laboratory is indeed involved in the death of the Toulouse technician, recognizes Inrae ...
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Mad cow disease: death of an INRAE retiree in Toulouse
The National Research Institute for Agriculture (INRAE) has confirmed the death of a retired employee, who had contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. ...
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The mysterious illness close to Creutzfeldt-Jakob that worries Canadians
An unknown disease has intrigued Canadian neurologists for several weeks. His symptoms are similar to those of Creutzfeldt-Jakob but the ...
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a small cut leads to the death of a researcher
The specialized journal The New England Journal of Medicine reports on the death of a laboratory worker in 2019. Seven ...
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Mad cow disease: researchers have found the origin of the disease
By studying prions, researchers in Toulouse have identified the origin of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, better known as “mad cow disease”. ...
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob: Man dies of rare disease after ingesting squirrel brains
A 61-year-old man died after ingesting squirrel brains. Doctors suspect contamination linked to a variant of Creutz-feldt-Jakob disease. Ingest squirrel ...
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Dementias: a new therapeutic target against prion diseases
The mechanisms of progression of prion diseases (Creutzfeldt-Jakob and mad cow disease) are now better understood with, finally, a potential ...
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a human prion produced in the laboratory for the first time
For the first time, researchers have succeeded in synthesizing the human prion, responsible for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.Prions are funny birds. Unlike ...
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Growth hormone: 10 million euros claimed for irreparable damage
10 million euros to compensate for damage caused by contaminated growth hormone. This is what the lawyers for the civil ...
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Growth hormone: two defendants facing civil justice
After two trials, the growth hormone scandal returns to court. The Paris Court of Appeal examines the civil liability of ...
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Alzheimer’s: specialists on the trail of a form of transmission
For the first time, researchers show that proteins involved in Alzheimer's could be transmitted, under certain conditions.The work of the ...
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob: blood transmission confirmed
For the first time, French researchers have succeeded in demonstrating the presence of infectivity in the blood of patients with ...
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Mad cow: a hope of treatment
Researchers have developed a compound capable of blocking the accumulation of prions in the brain responsible for mad cow disease. ...
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New case of mad cow disease in Ireland
A case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy has been reported in Ireland. The alert threshold for this disease had just been ...
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Papuan Brain Eaters Protected From Prion Disease
Papuan tribes who have a tradition of eating the brains of their dead are said to be able to resist ...
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Scrapie in sheep: a potential risk of transmission to humans
A French study succeeded in showing that scrapie, a disease similar to mad cow, could also affect humans.For the first ...
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Mad cow case: “The dismissal is not a scandal”
The 17 years of investigation of the mad cow case may end in a dismissal. For Judge Marie-Odile Bertella-Geffroy, public ...
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