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 ...

Before the final chapter on influenza virus there is a description of prions that cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathies such as kuru, scrapie, BSE and new variant CJD. This chapter might ...

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 ...

Aside from CWD, prion diseases among animals include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as “mad cow disease”; ...

the sickness was a new addition to a family of fatal transmissible brain diseases. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy – or BSE as we came to know it. BSE is a prion disease. Prions are a kind of ...

What are the molecular and cellular mechanisms by which some babies develop epileptic encephalopathies and autism spectrum disorder? That's what researchers in Canada and France set out to uncover ...

Our main focus now is to develop novel drugs for prion disease to cure Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs) including Scrapie in Sheep, BSE in cattles and CJD in humans. Novel ideas ...

There is believed to be around 600 confirmed cases worldwide. As of September 18 Germany has the highest number of infections in European with the UK following close behind. The new strain is a ...

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 ...