Prion — Worldwide/Unknown
Prion diseases are a rare class of brain disorders that are transmissible between animals of any species, including humans. Research published last week has identified the 1st new human prion disease in 50 years. The paper’s lead author, Stanley Prusiner, who won the Nobel prize in 1997 for his discovery that Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) could be transmitted by a “misfolded” protein, says this new disease is also potentially infectious.
Prion diseases are a rare class of brain disorders
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