Two recent cases of prion disease in the U.S. may have been caused by contaminated deer meat, though the connection is still ...

A new report calls for further study into a possible link between chronic wasting disease in deer and a rare and deadly brain ...

Fatal 'zombie deer disease' was suspected in deaths of two deer hunters. Maps show where the disease has spread in the United ...

Do "prions" exist? The word "prion" is used in different ways. It is used to describe the TSE group of diseases but it is also associated with the "protein-only" hypothesis discussed below.

The 2022 deaths of two hunters who ate venison infected with chronic wasting disease (CWD) has raised concerns the illness ...

News that Midwestern dairy cows may have become infected with avian flu by eating poultry waste has many asking: What are ...

A disease that kills white-tailed deer has moved further into central Illinois. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources ...

There is no known treatment for disease, which was first discovered in Colorado in the 1960s, and which impacts the nervous ...

Nov. 24, 2021 — China's Père David's deer was nearly gone in the late 1800s. Just 18 deer -- the very last of their kind -- were brought into captivity after the rest had been hunted to extinction.

Prions, which are pathogenic agents that induce abnormal folding of proteins in the brain, are known to cause neurodegenerative diseases. Prions which are also known as transmissible spongiform ...

But prion proteins can shapeshift into a misfolded version, one that converts normal prions into more of themselves. Over ...