They are called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) when there is evidence of animal-to-human or human-to-human transmission. The definition stems from the characteristic aspect and ...

Dan Ashe wrote that cougars regulate Chronic Wasting Disease in an effort to build support for a ban on mountain lion hunting ...

Hunters in certain areas across Texas are facing a new challenge this year: the reporting and decapitation of deer harvested ...

Satisfying one of the most important principles of Koch (a set of criteria used to prove the infectious nature of a disease), kuru was then shown to be transmissible from human brain tissue to a ...

BSE, bovine spongiform encephalopathy HD, Huntington’s disease PrPres, protease resistant conformers TSEs, transmissible spongiform encephalopathies vCJD, variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease bovine ...

It belongs to the family of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies or prion diseases. Prions are misshaped proteins that can spread the disease through direct animal-to-animal ...

CWD is a contagious, fatal neurological disease that affects the nervous system of deer, elk, moose and caribou. It belongs to the family of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies ...

This IFT Scientific Status Summary addresses transmissible spongiform encephalopathies and provides an authoritative perspective on the regulatory and trade landscape. This IFT Scientific Status ...

Most live virus BHV-1 vaccines produced the same pathogenic effects. We have also developed immunohistochemical methods for the detection of a marker protein (PrP) that accumulates in the brains of ...

BONNERS FERRY, Idaho — After three white-tailed deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) near Bonners Ferry, a new CWD Management Zone has been created in the Panhandle Region.