Ending the spread of CWD appears unlikely because the prions, which cluster in the brain and nervous system, can be transmitted in many of ways.

It is caused by prions, which are infectious proteins. There is no cure for this disease, and it can spread to new areas if ...

Zombie deer disease is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. It's caused by abnormal prion proteins that damage ... and the general public." Most people with CJD will die within a year ...

we have no idea how many people who currently do not show symptoms are actually harboring the brain-destroying infectious prions. It used to be that prion diseases were novelties — an odd ...

U.S. researchers say it’s time to look beyond deer when watching for chronic wasting disease exposure and infection, ...

The CDC states that CWD is a prion disease or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Other TSEs include bovine spongiform encephalopathy or “mad cow disease” in cattle and scrapie in sheep ...

"Prion disease has a lot of different origins ... reduced protein levels without harmful side effects in people. That gave them hope that installing the same mutation using base editing might ...

The most common prion disease in people is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Another prion disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), has a similar name but is a different, much rarer ...

In response to the disease, which is always fatal in ... venison which may contain infectious proteins known as prions. “We know that people are being exposed through consumption with prions, ...

Mad cow disease infected and killed a few people who ate prion-tainted beef. No medical treatment exists for stopping a prion disease in an infected animal. Ending the spread of CWD appears ...