It is the seventh case of the year and is part of an overall rise in H5N1 infections in Cambodia since late 2023. The patient ...

Foodborne illnesses are a significant public health concern worldwide, with parasitic infections being a major contributor to this burden. Meat consumption is a common practice in many cultures, with ...

It accounts for 10% to 15% of human prion diseases. People inherit GSS. The disease occurs due to a genetic mutation in the PRNP gene, which gives instructions for making the prion protein.

The most common human prion brain disease is the fatal and incurable Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), called variant CJD when caused by meat.

While symptoms eventually become obvious, the NCWRC explained that it is impossible to tell whether a deer has CWD by observation alone, as the disease has a long incubation period with symptoms ...

Chronic wasting disease is a prion disease — a rare, neurodegenerative disorder caused by misfolded proteins, called prions, that damage brain tissue. It affects members of the deer family (Cervidae), ...

A new study has reported that a now-banned medical procedure may have unintentionally infected patients with Alzheimer’s disease-causing proteins. Between 1959 and 1985, patients with short stature ...

Time to fear the deer? They had come across a case of a 72-year-old man who died in 2022 of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or CJD, the most common but still very rare prion disease in humans.

An outbreak of mad cow disease — another prion malady — after people consumed meat from infected cattle in the 1980s and 1990s helped put a spotlight on chronic wasting disease, Haigh says.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, like CWD, is a prion disease, albeit one affecting humans. A neurodegenerative disorder, CJD is characterized by Alzheimer’s-like symptoms, though they get worse ...