Prion diseases affect both animals and humans and occur in sporadic, acquired or inherited forms. Human examples include Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease (CJD), Kuru, fatal familial insomnia and ...

Neuropathogenesis of Prion Disease Louise Davidson; Richard Knight Disclosures Future Neurology. 2014;9 (2):135-147. Conclusion ...

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 ...

Most of public health is based on the working hypothesis that disease is caused by exposure to noxious factors in the external environment. While this approach has produced great successes in primary ...

Alcohol-related liver disease progresses in stages. At first, fat begins to accumulate in the liver (fatty liver), often without any noticeable symptoms and is reversible if drinking stops.

Other early symptoms of Lyme disease mimic what you might experience with the flu: a fever, chills, muscle aches, and swollen lymph nodes.

Key Takeaways A new app can help track progression of Huntington’s disease The app uses five tests of movement control to provide insight into motor control This measure was twice as accurate as ...

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs, prion diseases) are a class of fatal neurodegenerative diseases affecting a variety of mammalian species including humans. A misfolded form of the ...

Long before COVID-19 forced most of the world behind masks and into isolation, viral diseases had been persistently jumping from humans to primate species, with drastic consequences.

All prion diseases, regardless of species or etiology, exhibit a long, clinically silent incubation period. The duration of this latent phase is determined by many factors including prion strain, dose ...