“Zombie deer” disease: is transmission to humans possible?
The increase in cases of the chronic wasting disease that affects the brains of deer, nicknamed "zombie deer disease", worries ...
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Prion diseases: hope for a cure
Researchers have seen the positive results of a drug in an animal test.Between 100 and 150 new cases of prion ...
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Alzheimer’s: what if it was a prion disease?
According to a new French study, proteins specific to Alzheimer's disease behave like pathogenic prions, transmitting their abnormal shape to ...
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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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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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