Prions are infectious proteins that have been found to cause disease in humans and other mammals. These diseases are collectively know as Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathys (TSEs) and include; Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, or mad cows disease), variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD-the human version of BSE), Kuru (similar to vCJD, except this affected ...
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This answer introduces prions, their multiple forms and their role in infectious and non-infectious diseases of humans, cows, sheep and deer.
Many inflammatory diseases and infections, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, HIV-related dementia, prion diseases, and depression, may be ...
... symptoms except: a) Gait b) Tremors 3. All of the following are examples of TSE's EXCEPT: c) Dementia d) Slurred speech a) Chondropblastoma b) prion diseas e ...
... While I am not aware of anything that deals with turkey, mad cow disease (prion) from beef (or another form from sheep) and trichinellosis (parasitic worm ...
